Oceanography Miscellaneous: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Oceanography and the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session on ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 - 327 pages |
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... believe that this situation , if it is permiteed to continue , will result in irreparable damage to the United States in areas for which we have primary responsibility within the Congress , my Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife ...
... believe that this situation , if it is permiteed to continue , will result in irreparable damage to the United States in areas for which we have primary responsibility within the Congress , my Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife ...
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... believe the major decisions must be put together in a single package . Every state has different priorities , and agreement on one issue is frequently conditioned on agreement on another . Thus , it might have been possible - and might ...
... believe the major decisions must be put together in a single package . Every state has different priorities , and agreement on one issue is frequently conditioned on agreement on another . Thus , it might have been possible - and might ...
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... believe that specifying the rights and duties of both coastal states and other states in the economic zone is the approach best designed to avoid the sterile debate over abstract concepts . At the final meeting of the Second Committee ...
... believe that specifying the rights and duties of both coastal states and other states in the economic zone is the approach best designed to avoid the sterile debate over abstract concepts . At the final meeting of the Second Committee ...
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... believe many of these arguments reflect underlying political and economic differences . One such difference relates to the conceptual differences concernnig the nature and scope of the powers to be exercised by the International Seabed ...
... believe many of these arguments reflect underlying political and economic differences . One such difference relates to the conceptual differences concernnig the nature and scope of the powers to be exercised by the International Seabed ...
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... believe appre- ciation in the course of discussions on the economic implications of deep seabed mining of the uncertainty surrounding estimates that seabed production will damage the economies of developing country producers of copper ...
... believe appre- ciation in the course of discussions on the economic implications of deep seabed mining of the uncertainty surrounding estimates that seabed production will damage the economies of developing country producers of copper ...
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Page 151 - Where the coasts of two States are opposite or adjacent to each other, neither of the two States is entitled, failing agreement between them to the contrary, to extend its territorial sea beyond the median line every point of which is equidistant from the nearest points on the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial seas of each of the two States is measured.
Page 123 - In the absence of agreement, and unless another boundary line is justified by special circumstances, the boundary shall be determined by application of the principle of equidistance from the nearest points of the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea of each State is measured.
Page 124 - The consent of the coastal State shall be obtained in respect of any research concerning the continental shelf and undertaken there. Nevertheless, the coastal State shall not normally withhold its consent if the request is submitted by a qualified institution with a view to purely scientific research into the physical or biological characteristics of the continental shelf...
Page 159 - All States shall co-operate to the fullest possible extent in the repression of piracy on the high seas or in any other place outside the jurisdiction of any State.
Page 155 - The exploration of the continental shelf and the exploitation of its natural resources must not result in any unjustifiable interference with navigation, fishing or the conservation of the living resources of the sea, nor result in any interference with fundamental oceanographic or other scientific research carried out with the intention of open publication.
Page 153 - Each State shall fix the conditions for the grant of its nationality to ships, for the registration of ships in its territory, and for the right to fly its flag. Ships have the nationality of the State whose flag they are entitled to fly.
Page 154 - ... administrative authorities either of the flag State or of the State of which such person is a national. 2. In disciplinary matters, the State which has issued a master's certificate or a certificate of competence or...
Page 138 - Such measures shall also be designed to maintain or restore populations of harvested species at levels which can produce the maximum sustainable yield, as qualified by relevant environmental and economic factors...
Page 160 - ... 2. The drawing of such baselines must not depart to any appreciable extent from the general direction of the coast, and the sea areas lying within the lines must be sufficiently closely linked to the land domain to be subject to the regime of internal waters. 3. Baselines shall not be drawn to and from low-tide elevations unless lighthouses or similar installations which are permanently above sea level have been built on them.
Page 152 - high seas" means all parts of the sea that are not included in the territorial sea or in the internal waters of a State.