Sentences with phrase «exclusive economic zone»

This month alone, more than 20 countries have submitted claims for continental shelf areas stretching beyond their 200 - nautical - mile exclusive economic zones.

What do international treaties say about claiming artificial island to claim territorial waters and exclusive economic zone around on it?

For example, the majority of species that were considered very poorly represented (less than two percent of their range found in marine protected areas) are found in exclusive economic zones.

The study's authors found that the most promising locations for the early shipsteads would be within the 200 - mile exclusive economic zones of highly developed nations in North America, Western Europe, Australia, and East Asia.

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), which manages fisheries within the 322 - kilometer Exclusive Economic Zone off U.S. shores, would get an 8 % increase to $ 857.8 million, up form $ 794.2 million this year.

Excluded from the lease sale are blocks subject to the Congressional moratorium established by the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006; blocks that are adjacent to or beyond the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone in the area known as the northern portion of the Eastern Gap; and whole blocks and partial blocks within the current boundary of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary.

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.

Outcome of U.S. requests to conduct marine scientific research in the Russian Exclusive Economic Zone.

The size of New Zealand's exclusive economic zone far exceeds its land mass, and has attracted a large amount of interest from resource exploration companies in recent years.

China has often been reluctant to precisely define its claim to territories in the South China Sea, not least because of its inconsistency with the law regarding Exclusive Economic Zones.

Most of the oil and gas deposits are likely within 200 - nautical - mile exclusive economic zones belonging to countries with Arctic coasts.

But while NOAA supports the legislation's intent, Hunt said it is concerned about provisions requiring NOAA's parent, the Commerce Department, to identify countries whose shark conservation plans do not pass U.S. muster, either in international waters or within their own exclusive economic zones.

The investigators» efforts also resulted in a database and a visualization of the global network of transnational fisheries, which summarizes the extent of fishing in foreign exclusive economic zones.

The German declaration of ten protected marine sites as part of the European network of Natura 2000 sites means that about 31 % of the combined exclusive economic zone (EEZ, 12 to 200 nautical miles) of the North Sea and Baltic Sea has been placed under protection.

The East China Sea's festering territorial issues primarily revolve around China and Japan's claims to Exclusive Economic Zones stretching 200 nautical miles from their respective land - based territory.

The 2016 National Offshore Wind Strategy report estimates the OSW gross resource potential (i.e. the tier just above the base of the Figure 2 pyramid) within the nation's 200 nautical mile («nm») Exclusive Economic Zone boundary [3] to be approximately 10,800 GW, which would generate 44,378,000 GWh per year, approximately eleven times the net electricity generated by all energy sources in the United States in 2015 (DOE / DOI 2016).

And while many of the collaborators may be tiny island nations with modest terrestrial areas, their expansive exclusive economic zones (EEZ) effectively make them massive ocean states.

Negotiations of this kind can be difficult and protracted, especially if Scotland bargains hard for opt - outs and special regimes relating to its key interests, such as control over fishing in its large exclusive economic zone.

Maduro announced the creation of four exclusive economic zones where it will be accepted as a means of payment.

An estimated 1 % of world oceans are already protected by various kinds of reserves, but there are few protected areas in waters beyond the 200 - nautical - mile exclusive economic zones off national coasts.

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.

Between 1990 and 2014, the U.S. Department of State submitted 48 requests to Russia for U.S. vessels to conduct marine scientific research in the Russian Exclusive Economic Zone.

NOAA was working on complete high - resolution bathymetry of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone — the waters within 200 miles of shore — until the budget was cut, said Legg.

The Magnussen Act created a 200 - mile exclusive economic zone off the U.S. coastline, meaning foreign vessels that once fished off of the U.S. shoreline were no longer permitted to fish in the restricted waters.

Three of the missiles land in Japan's exclusive economic zone.

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the missile landed outside Japan's exclusive economic zone and no damage to ships or airplanes was reported.

May 21, 2017: The KN - 15 (Pukkuksong - 2) missile, which was first launched by the North earlier this year, flies for 310 miles before landing outside of Japan's exclusive economic zone.

In fact, in the border between the Yukon territory and Alaska and the Beaufort Sea, there is an area of dispute between Canada and United States where we have counterclaims on parts of the exclusive economic zone on the offshore there.

None of the small land features claimed by China is sufficiently large to justify maritime «exclusive economic zones» for any nation, the tribunal said.

My introduction to KASM was instructive because it led me to the broader controversy in New Zealand concerning offshore resource development in the country's exclusive economic zone and the enactment of the EEZ Act in 2013.

This was the first application for a resource consent under the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act, Public Act 2012 No 72 (the EEZ Act) and, like the Northern Gateway project, it promised economic gains but only in exchange for uncertain and potentially significant environmental risks.

The Venezuelan president also revealed authorities will create four special and exclusive economic zones to stimulate the circulation of the petro.

The projectile flew for 53 minutes before landing 210 Kilometers off the coast of Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone.

The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea defines something called the «Exclusive Economic Zone» (EEZ) which is the 200 miles off the coast of any country in which they are allowed to exploit and use marine resources.

They have no territorial sea of their own, and their presence does not affect the delimitation of the territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone or the continental shelf.

«Every mineral in its natural state in, under or upon any land in Ghana, Rivers, streams, water courses throughout Ghana, the exclusive economic zone and any area covered by the territorial sea or continental shelf is the property of the Republic of Ghana and shall be vested in the president on behalf of, and in trust for the people of Ghana».

«Additionally, the Exercise will test each individual maritime force to patrol their Exclusive Economic Zones and detect and prosecute illegal activity accordingly,» he added.

He further said, «Section 2 (1) of NIMASA Act states that «This Act shall apply to ships, small ships and crafts registered in Nigeria and extended to ships, small ships and crafts flying a foreign flag in the Exclusive Economic Zone, Territorial and Inland Seas, Inland Waterways and in the Ports of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.»

Surprisingly, just five countries — China, Spain, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea — accounted for nearly 85 percent of fishing efforts on the high seas, the regions outside of any country's exclusive economic zone.

Much of the fishing was concentrated in countries» exclusive economic zones — ocean regions within about 370 kilometers of a nation's coastline — and in certain hot spots farther out in the open ocean, the team found.

The rules for seabed resource claims stem from the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which allows a 230 - mile (370 - kilometer) exclusive economic zone off a nation's coast from the low - tide mark.

All but one tag reported data for up to 245 days and revealed that the sharks spent about 68 percent of their time in the Bahamas's Exclusive Economic Zone, where long - lining and commercial trade of sharks is outlawed.

The great blue wilderness in question is the «high seas» — the 58 per cent of the ocean outside the 200 - nautical - mile limit that defines the area each coastal country can exploit as an exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

In general, the Chinese object to the U.S. Navy conducting research activities within China's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), which stretches some 320 kilometers off its coastline.

«This problem exists in many island nations with large «Exclusive Economic Zones.»»

The United States, for example, has enormous untapped potential and could produce enough farmed seafood to meet national demand using only 0.01 percent of its exclusive economic zone, Gentry noted.

In the rest of the islands» Exclusive Economic Zone — waters out to 200 miles from shore — they were fished by long - line tuna boats from Hawaii.

The most recent plan provides a policy platform for the protection of marine ecosystems and the restoration of fisheries within China's exclusive economic zone — an area of coastal water and seabed to which China claims exclusive rights for fishing, drilling, and other economic activities.