Pacific salmon rely on near-shore waters and estuaries for survival during a part of their life cycle.

The little tunny's habitat tends to be near-shore waters, much closer to shore than most other tunas.

The lettered olive typically lives in near-shore waters, on shallow sand flats near inlets.

But in the United States, marine protected areas are less than 1 percent of near-shore waters.

Hardhead catfish spawn during the early summer in estuarine and near-shore waters along the coast.

In addition, Californian restrictions on the use of certain types of fishing gear in near-shore waters confer good protection to this shark's core population.

Traditional fishing boats are employed, powered by paddle, wind or outboard motors and operating in near-shore waters.

These factors affect only near-shore waters, although they show that increased phytoplankton populations are not universally benign.

We simply must use alternative ways of disposing of the wastes being poured into our near-shore waters.

But our immediate attention must be directed to the critical state of our near-shore coastal waters.