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Washington Law Review

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1977

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Potential Conflicts Between A Future Law Of The Sea Treaty And The Fishery Conservation And Management Act Of 1976, Jon L. Jacobson, Douglas G. Cameron Jul 1977

Potential Conflicts Between A Future Law Of The Sea Treaty And The Fishery Conservation And Management Act Of 1976, Jon L. Jacobson, Douglas G. Cameron

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Enforcement Of The Fishery Conservation And Management Act Of 1976: The Policeman's Lot, Eugene R. Fidell Jul 1977

Enforcement Of The Fishery Conservation And Management Act Of 1976: The Policeman's Lot, Eugene R. Fidell

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The purposes of this article are to analyze the enforcement provisions of the FCMA, to compare them with the terms of prior United States fisheries legislation, and to consider the probable shape of the enforcement program under the new law. Where appropriate, consideration will be given to parallel foreign developments as well as the possible interaction with the Revised Single Negotiating Text distributed at the end of the New York session of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea in May 1976. In several instances, the need for corrective legislation, which is apparently being addressed within …


Submerged Passage Through Straits: Interpretations Of The Proposed Law Of The Sea Treaty Text, William T. Burke Apr 1977

Submerged Passage Through Straits: Interpretations Of The Proposed Law Of The Sea Treaty Text, William T. Burke

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Among numerous important problems before the Conference, one of the most critical is the right of transit passage through straits, those narrow passageways which would fall within the territorial sea when nations generally agree on a twelve-mile limit. The right of submarines to pass submerged through straits (and of airplanes to overfly) is at the center of the transit passage issue. This is a key issue because the two major naval powers, the United States and the U.S.S.R., insisted early in the Conference's preparatory work on the necessity of an assured right of transit for all vessels and aircraft through …