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Fisheries Management And Development In The Eez: The North, South, And Southwest Pacific Experience, William O. Mclean, Sompong Sucharitkul
Fisheries Management And Development In The Eez: The North, South, And Southwest Pacific Experience, William O. Mclean, Sompong Sucharitkul
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The establishment of Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ's) has generated modifications of existing institutional arrangements and creations of new regional bodies to promote international cooperation in the conservation, management, and development of living resources of the sea. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (the "Convention") has affected fisheries management by authorizing coastal States to extend their sovereign rights over living and non-living resources seaward up to the outer limits of 200-nautical-mile off-shore areas, measured from their coastlines which could be drawn as straight baselines. On a global basis, the areas within the exclusive economic zones of coastal …