Panama Opens a Center to Monitor a Corridor in the Pacific that Shares with Ecuador, Costa Rica and Colombia

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Panama launched on Thursday a monitoring center for the East Tropical Pacific Marine Corridor (CMAR), which it shares with Ecuador, Costa Rica and Colombia, as a tool to address threats such as illegal fishing and marine pollution.

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The main objective is to improve the management effectiveness of marine protected areas and to counter illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU fishing) in Ecuador, Costa Rica, Colombia and Panama.