The legal regime for marine fisheries and mariculture, in fact all living marine resources, is built around the rights and duties of coastal States and those of other States that are specified in United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
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FAO: Countries adopt global guidelines on tenure of land, forests, fisheries
by FAO News Center
14 May 2012
Historic international agreement on how tenure and access rights to natural resources - including fisheries - key to food production should be handled.