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Important marine mammal areas (IMMA) are discrete portions of habitat, important to marine mammal species, that have the potential to be delineated and managed for conservation. They are identified by a task force under the auspices of the International Committee on Marine Mammal Protected Areas (ICMMPA) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Several workshops have been held to define worldwide the IMMAs in each region.


 * The first workshop concerned the Mediterranean sea
 * The second workshop worked on the Pacific islands region
 * The third IMMA workshop region concerned the coast of India, Bangladesh, Thailand and Vietnam in the North to the vast Indonesian archipelago in the south
 * The fourth workshop worked on the Southern ocean and sub antarctic islands.