How can a healthy ocean improve human health and enhance wellbeing on a rapidly changing planet?

The authors would like to thank an anonymous reviewer and the following experts for their valuable contributions and reviews, which have improved this Blue Paper: Bruce Maycock (Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium of Public Health), Timothy Bouley (BioFeyn), Michael Depledge (Eden Project), Matthew Carvalho (Georgetown University), Margaret Spring (Monterey Bay Aquarium), Nicola Bridge (Ocean Conservation Trust), Hong Ching (Universiti Malaya), Mariska Bottema (World Resources Institute), Nicola Frost (World Resources Institute), Micheline Khan (World Resources Institute), and Tom Pickerell (World Resources Institute).

We are most grateful for input from the Ocean Panel Expert Group Lead Expert Jacqueline Uku (Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute), and from Stephanie Ockenden (World Resources Institute), who arbitrated this report.

We would like to sincerely thank Kathleen Schalch, who significantly improved the Blue Paper through a substantive edit, and Alex Martin, Romain Warnault and Shannon Collins for providing valuable editorial and design support.

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