the socalled blue economy is sizeable and growing each year marine and coastal resources generate at least usd trillion or of the worlds gdp equivalentto the gdp of the seventhlargest economy each year whilst the total value of the worlds oceans is estimated at usd trillion if action is not taken soon to regenerate this finite resource and preserve ocean health the continued pressure on oceans will irrevocably damage one of the worlds most valuable resources and threaten life as we know it in very many ways