Lifelines: Canada's East Coast Fisheries

Law Of The Sea – The Exclusive Economic Zone

An Overview of the Development of the 200 Mile Exclusive Economic Zone and the Related Canadian Fisheries and Other Interests

by B. Applebaum, BA LLM


Biographical note: Mr. Applebaum was a member of the Canadian delegation to the 3rd United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea during the 1970s and early 1980s. He became a senior staff member of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and rose to the rank of Director-General of the International Directorate. During the course of his career he was a member and head of Canadian delegations in the numerous bilateral and multilateral negotiations which created the international treaty framework relevant to Canadian fisheries in the two decades following the mid-1970s extensions of national jurisdiction to 200 nautical miles.

This overview paper was prepared (January 2001) for the use of staff at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, in connection with the exhibition Lifelines: Canada's East Coast Fisheries.


INTRODUCTION

THE LEAD-UP TO THE EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE

THE THIRD UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON THE LAW OF THE SEA AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNCLOS

THE CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE

OUTLINE OF UNCLOS

PROBLEMS REMAINING

FOOTNOTES




 
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