As one of the important steps in implementing the NOWPAP Marine Litter Activity, the 1st NOWPAP Workshop on Marine Litter was held on 8-9 June 2006 in Incheon, the Republic of Korea, with kind sponsorship from the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries and the Incheon Metropolitan City.
The workshop brought together participants from all NOWPAP member states, UNEP Regional Seas Programme, International Maritime Organization (IMO), the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA), UNDP/GEF Project on Reducing Environment Stress in the Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem (YSLME), as wel