Sentences with phrase «mile exclusive economic zones»

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

And every coastal nation has exclusive economic rights in the zone extending 200 miles off its shores, meaning that all the gas, oil, fish, and other resources are under its control.

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.

Niue, a small island country in the South Pacific with a population of just 1,600, established a new marine protected area that covers 40 percent of the island's exclusive economic zone... In September this year, Chile announced a 740,000 - square - kilometer (285,700 - square - mile) marine reserve around its remote Easter Island.

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).

Under the Law of the Sea, countries can only own the seabed beyond their Exclusive Economic Zones (200 nautical miles out) if it's part of their continental shelf.