Sentences with phrase «own exclusive economic zones»

At the same time, we're doing enforcement activity in our remote [exclusive economic zones] to make sure that there's not illegal fishing activity taking place, and we were not seeing that activity, but it was peeling off a lot of our resources toward what I would consider a relatively benign threat, and then we're providing other resources to do exercises with the military in the remote parts of the world but with really no strategic outcome that I could discern where the Coast Guard was providing a unique capability.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.»

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

* In our chat, Savitz explained many ways this system will enable conservation agencies or private groups to identify suspicious activity or illegal fishing in countries» exclusive economic zones or protected areas.

This is a Texas - size area of international water that includes the North Pole and is encircled by the exclusive economic zones of the coastal countries.

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.

A third example is the shrinkage of Arctic sea ice, opening Arctic shipping routes as well as providing access to valuable mineral resources in the exclusive economic zones of countries bordering the Arctic, with all the associated risks and opportunities.

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.

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

«When you look at the untapped oil and gas reserves in the Arctic, much of that is in our Exclusive Economic Zone.

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.

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).

-- Fisheries within Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs), particularly where access - regulation mechanisms artificially reduce the mobility of fishing groups and fleets and their capacity to adjust to fluctuations in stock distribution and abundance

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.

Some countries have passed laws or put in place regulations that prohibit commercial fishing of all sharks throughout their exclusive economic zone, creating a shark sanctuary.

It is Benthic Protection Areas, not MPAs, that cover 30 % of New Zealand's Exclusive Economic Zone.

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.

One of the most significant impacts the agreement had was in the establishment of maritime boundaries, specifying the location and permitted use of territorial waters, exclusive economic zones, international waters, and other areas.

Also here, the Court applied a limited interpretation of «territorial waters» (Article 2 (1) UNCLOS) and of «exclusive economic zone» (Articles 55 and 56 UNCLOS) as only including waters adjacent to the territory of a State as internationally recognised, thereby excluding the waters adjacent to Western Sahara (Judgment paras 65 - 69).

Speaking on French television channel LCI, Xavier McDonald, a partner in HFW's shipping team, commented that the ruling of the Cour de Cassation is significant, as the Court upheld the jurisdiction of the French Criminal Courts to prosecute MARPOL infringements committed in France's Exclusive Economic Zone in circumstances where those infringements cause major damage to the coastline.

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.

The dispute concerns the creation by the UK of a Maritime Protected Area (MPA) in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) around the Chagos Islands Archipelogo.

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea contains the clause: Rocks which can not sustain human habitation or economic life of their own shall have no exclusive economic zone or...

The Venezuelan president also told the concerned authorities will create four special and exclusive economic zones to stimulate the circulation of the Petro.

Not exact matches

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.

It would apply to all the economic exclusive zones of E.U. countries and international waters of the Northeast Atlantic.