Implications for fisheries management of U.S. acceptance of the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea

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The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOS), through its fishery provisions, helps US interests by providing broad US discretion in exercising its exclusive fishery management jurisdiction in the 200-nautical-mile zone. The LOS treaty furthers US economic and scientific interests through recognition of sovereign US rights to explore and manage living resources within the zone. Critics have erroneously claimed the treaty fishery provisions, particularly the compulsory dispute resolution procedures, would erode American authority over the US's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and high seas fisheries.

United States, Laws, regulations and rules, Fishery management

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Mare nostrum: a new international law of the sea

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The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982 (UNCLOS) can be seen as a step on the road to a new form of international social organization, transcending the boundaries of nation-states to work towards a common good. Towards this end, states are given new groupings between interstate and international and these are based on shared characteristics such as coastal and geographically disadvantaged. Many of the phrases used in the agreement indicate its status as an evolving public law system aimed at progressive social development.

Marine resources

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The procedural framework of the agreement implementing the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

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The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, effective Nov 16, 1994, coexists with the Agreement Relating to Implementation of the Part XI of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, adopted July 28, 1994. The agreement was negotiated due to industrialized nations' concerns about the Convention's seabed provisions. If this dual regime continues into 1998, the Agreement will have effectively blocked the Convention's seabed regime, in turn allowing the US and other investor nations to legally explore the deep seabed.

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