This report presents the status of activities for the sub-programme on the Assessment and Management of Environmental Pollution (AMEP) in support of the Protocol Concerning Land-Based Sources of Marine Pollution (LBS Protocol) for the period 2017-2018. It also provides a summary of relevant recommendations and decisions of the Third Meeting of the Scientific, Technical and Advisory Committee to the LBS Protocol (3rd LBS STAC), Third Meeting of the Contracting Parties (3rd COP) to the LBS Protocol, and Seventeenth Intergovernmental Meeting on the Action Plan for the Caribbean Environment Programme (17th IGM) (Annex I of this report).