2006, ISBN: 9781234099039

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Rarebooksclub.com. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 310 pages. Original publisher: Silver Spring, MD : U. S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, 2006. Excerpt: . . . INTRODUCTION 3 evident. Accusations of preferential use of the principle of freedom of fishing were brought against the nations engaged in the expeditionary fishery. The Third U. N. Conference on the Law of the Sea, convened in 1973, had been fated to alter the legal regime for the worlds ocean most radically. Heated arguments flared up in the course of the Conference. A number of participating states, the former U. S. S. R. and the other socialist countries among them, spoke in favor of keeping the principle of freedom of high seas intact, but they failed. After negotiations lasting almost 10 years, a new U. N. Convention on the Law of the Sea was adopted in 1982, according to which the coastal states were conceded the sovereign rights of management of the fish resources in their 200-mile exclusive economic zones. But the U. S. and Canada had long anticipated the resolu-tions of the Third Conference; it had been already 6 years by then that their continental shelves were washed by the 200-mile-zone waters. This brief excursus gives an idea of the events that concurred with the beginning and end of the Soviet fishery in the area under consideration. All but two decades fitted be-tween these milestones. Year after year, large groups of fishing vessels from the U. S. S. R. ploughed the local waters to harvest hundreds of thousands of tons of fish. The intention of this book is to show what that period had been like. The waters off the U. S. and Canadian east coasts were just one of many areas that experienced the pressure of the Soviet expeditionary fishery of unequalled scale. Elucida-tion of the events that occurred there, in that one separate area, would be incomplete if not viewed from four aspects: a historical scenario of the building up of the Soviet fishery phenomenon, the adaptation of this giganti. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., Rarebooksclub.com<