To be identified as a PSSA, three elements must be present: (1) the area must have certain attributes (ecological, socio-economic, or scientific); (2) it must be vulnerable to damage by international shipping; and (3) there must be measures that can be adopted by the IMO to protect the attributes of the area from the vulnerability to damage by international shipping.
How to balance these economic needs of those involved in international shipping with those of the whales and those who profit from tourism -- the latter two required a stable, unsullied ecosystem.
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