. Strengthen the national science programme for integrated ocean and coastal management by conducting research annually to determine baseline information for biodiversity species and priority habitats within South Africa's exclusive economic zone and associated large marine ecosystems; increasing the number of surveys of representative or priority habitats every year from 2 in 2012/13 to 8 in 2015/16; and supporting biodiversity and assessing marine protected areas through the cataloguing of new or unknown species, with emphasis on benthic invertebrate species, on an ongoing basis. . Improve the conservation status of marine top predator populations, especially seals and the 12 million South African seabird species, by monitoring and researching their behaviour for baseline information annually; and providing appropriate management advice based on population numbers as required. . Implement a functional coastal and ocean observation and monitoring network for the establishment of a climate and early warning system by increasing the number of observational platforms deployed from 3 in 2012/13 to 6 in 2014/15; and using the information gathered by the observational platforms to provide a basis for the annually compiled State of the Ocean report.