RT Report T1 Management and Conservation of Renewable Marine Resources in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden region: UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 64 A1 United Nations Environment Programme, A1 International Union for Conservation of Nature, K1 marine resources conservation K1 Gulf of Aden K1 Red Sea YR 1985 FD 1985 LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/11873 UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/11873 NO The Red Sea is a narrow-elongated body of water running NNW-SSE between the land masses of Africa and Arabia. At its northern end it forks to form the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba while, in the south, it meets the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean through a narrow strip of water 26km wide and < 200m deep (Morcos 1970), the Bab-el-Mandab, between Djibouti and Perim in South Yemen (PDRY). The Gulf of Aden forms an integral part of the northwest Indian Ocean. DS UN Environment Document Repository RD Sep 16, 2026