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- Title
Many Issues, Few Agreements for Law of the Sea.
- Authors
Leeper, E. M.
- Abstract
The article discusses the laws of the sea with reference to U.S.'s foreign policy, in times when the pressures of population growth has intensified and nations are looking hopefully towards the resources of the seas to supplement the loss of resources on land. Representatives of 141 nations will meet at the United Nations headquarters in New York at the end of March 1976, to discuss the questions of marine pollution and try to resolve them in a Law of the Sea (LOS) treaty. The U.S. is ready to concede that too much freedom for the 70% of the earth's surface occupied by oceans may be detrimental to national interests. Both, the House of Representatives and the Senate have passed bills pushing U.S. jurisdiction over fishing rights from 12 miles to 200 miles from the coast.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LAW of the sea; MARINE resources conservation laws; INTERNATIONAL relations; MARITIME law conferences; UNITED Nations; MARINE pollution; UNITED States. Congress. House; FISHERY laws
- Publication
BioScience, 1976, Vol 26, Issue 3, p173
- ISSN
0006-3568
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/bioscience/26.3.173