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O le sao o si'osi'omaga faalenatura ma auaunaga faalesi'osi'omaga a le sami mo le soifua manuia o tagata matele lava ina le leiloa ma le amanaia.

Samoa's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) covers 120,00 square kilometers of ocean, which is 40 times larger than the country's land area. The economy is highly dependent on the stock of its natural ocean wealth which supports its fisheries, tourism and coastal community livelihoods.

Bioregions are spatial units of the marine environment that host similar biota, and can serve to provide spatially explicit surrogates of biodiversity for marine conservation and management,