Sentences with phrase «called exclusive economic zone»

There is one exception: if the submerged margin of the continent juts beyond this so - called exclusive economic zone, a country may extend its claim to seabed resources accordingly.

Martin Pratt, an expert on maritime boundaries at Durham University in England, says that the only environmental protection afforded under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea relates to so - called Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) in waters within a territory extending 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) from a country's coastline.