Recognizing World Oceans Day and the need to protect, conserve, maintain, and rebuild the ocean and its resources.

This resolution designates World Oceans Day and expresses a commitment to protecting, conserving, maintaining, and rebuilding the ocean and its resources. It emphasizes the ocean’s critical role in supporting life, climate regulation, food, culture, and economies, and highlights serious threats such as acidification, pollution, marine debris, ghost fishing gear, harmful algal blooms, and climate-driven changes. While non-binding, the measure calls for stronger federal action—through increased funding for scientific research and monitoring—and alignment with international initiatives like the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. It also endorses coordinated interagency efforts and Indigenous stewardship in ocean management. In short, the resolution aims to elevate attention to ocean health, encourage federal investments and policy coordination in ocean science and management, and push for actions that address climate impacts and ocean-related challenges, consistent with global ocean science and sustainability goals.