44. 据管理国称，内政部优先推进和扩大根据《合作保护马尾藻海汉密尔顿宣言》设立的马尾藻海委员会，以更好地管理广阔的马尾藻海。《宣言》承认这片海域是重要的开阔洋生态系统。百慕大环境部长主持了 2017 年 4 月 18 日和 19 日在葡萄牙亚速尔群岛举行的马尾藻海委员会第三次联席会议和《汉密尔顿宣言》签字仪式。
44. According to the administering Power, the Ministry of Home Affairs has prioritized the advancement and expansion of the Sargasso Sea Commission, established pursuant to the Hamilton Declaration on Collaboration for the Conservation of the Sargasso Sea, to better manage the wider Sargasso Sea, which is recognized in the Declaration as an important open ocean ecosystem. The Minister of Environment of Bermuda chaired the third joint meeting of the Commission and the signatories to the Hamilton Declaration, held in Azores, Portugal, on 18 and 19 April 2017.