 The ocean had been an integral part of life of all the Gulf countries. For coethes specifically it has a heritage value. Most of the coethes were diverse and they were doing pearl diving and trading and ship building. Currently also it is very important because we since the development started we depend on energy and the water needs on desalination which all comes from the sea. There's a huge portion of diet which comes from sea which is seafood and shellfish and then it is a very important source for the economy because all the navigation that takes place is from the sea route. About 40% of the total oil produced sold in the world goes through this part of the world. We are seeing accelerated ocean acidification in the area. We see a very high temperature in the area. We see a lot of very high salinity in the area. So all these are multiple stresses other than even the oil industry and power in desalination facilities. In terms of pollution what we do is we do all sorts of assessments starting from trace metals to trace organics to radionuclides and we found that most of these pollutants are not there in the aquas phase in the water they are not there but they are there in the sediments. Sediments are like repository or the history where they store it like a sink and what makes us bit uncomfortable is that climate change some of these contaminants may get remobilized and be bioavailable. And that can be taken up by organisms and it can pass through the food chain and it can create multiple stresses. Spectrometry is used basically to identify different type of pollutants which are there in the marine environment and we can do it on all sort of matrixes from water to biota to sediments and we have done it and we found that there is a trend and it can be identified that where the source is, how it is coming, where it is concentrating if it is biomagnifying all these issues are very clear using the nuclear techniques. In fish we find some of the major contribution we will see is from polonium and this polonium is coming from redon and natural radionuclides. A very detailed work has been done on polonium where we see that to do food security to do an assessment on dosimetry and fish advisories all this data can be used and it is being used and we have found certain degree of organic pollutants in them. There are in some cases in some species there are trace metals available. So all these assessments help us to advise that what's safe and what's not. It is essentially for the policy makers to underpin any policy with sound science. That's the main aim. Over all these years the facilities that we have developed have grown to a larger scale. Now we have a facility which is to be capable of doing all sort of ocean acidification and ocean warming experiments and control the facility sizes quite big. We are trying to host now the regional to be a regional hub and support IAEA and its fellows in case if they need any training to and cooperation on regional and international scale to do any experiment all the analytical facilities are available and it can be shared with users.