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- Developed countries should be encouraged to aid less-developed countries in adapting to non-fish economies (e.g through preferential trade rates for goods and services other than fish) and to aid with educational efforts in those developing countries that may not be able to fund these campaigns.
- Countries should integrate ecology and ocean curricula into their mandatory educational systems so that all students will have a basic exposure to the issues and concepts behind this and other global environmental problems.
- Provide Countries should provide training and job opportunities for fishermen so that the transition from fishing to other jobs is smoother. Training the fishermen for alternative jobs such as aquaculture, ocean research, and regulatory observation on the fishing boats would help the fishermen to smoothly shift out of fishing and yet work continue to work in ocean-related vocations.
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- The public should be educated about the ocean problem and how their everyday actions hold the key to solving this complex problem. This can be achieved by advertisements, and documentaries such as "An Inconvenient Truth" or even by exposure to the problem in popular culture.
- Classes should be introduced at all educational levels, even beyond the mandatory core suggested under "Country Level" educational goals.
- Organization of school and university activities: Having debates, quizzes, workshops, research opportunities, or competitive activities about how we can we can become sustainable consumers of our resources would help to spread awareness among people.
- World Ocean Day: Currently there is a an Oceans Day Program held sponsored by a collaboration between the Malibu Foundation for Environmental Education, the California Coastal Commission, Spectral Q Aerial Art and regional partners along the west coast of North America. Having Spreading such programs worldwide would help create large-scale awareness in creative waysof the issue.
- Advertisements: Advertising on popular Web sites like Google or Yahoo! will further help in increasing awareness. The Ad Council is currently running a campaign focusing on Oceans Awareness , using Ariel from the Disney movie "A Little Mermaid". Extension of such programs will help increase overall knowledge of these issues.
- Campaigns in Public Places: Celebrity endorsement may also help raise awareness as well as money for the cause. Such events can be held at educational institutions or in other public places.
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