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Jurisdiction – The PNP Maritime Group shall perform Maritime Law Enforcement and Internal Security Operations over Philippine territorial1, archipelagic2 and internal3 waters, rivers, ports4 of entry and exits. 1Territorial waters or a territorial sea as defined by the 1982 UNCLOS, is a belt of coastal waters extending at most 12 nautical miles (22.2 km; 13.8 mi) from the baseline (usually the mean low-water mark) of a coastal state. 2archipelagic waters are the waters enclosed by the archipelagic
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new opportunity for Bangladesh in the Bay) ---------------------------------------------------------- It was realised in the early days of independence that Bangladesh would need to explore and exploit the immense untapped natural resources of the sea as the land territory of Bangladesh covered only about 144, 000 square kilometers. Against this backdrop, bilateral talks to demarcate the maritime boundary commenced with India and Myanmar in 1974. But the talks remained stagnant for more than three
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Conclusion 5 References 6 Introduction The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea also referred to as (UNCLOS) has been in place for many years after its initial establishment. The UNCLOS convention has been amended overtime since it was established for many years. There are calls to revisit the whole convention as some aspects does not auger well with the current trends in the world. The Law of the Sea has caught the public attention due to certain activities such as fishing and the activities
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Security of offshore oil and gas facilities Australian Journal of Maritime and Ocean Affairs (2013) Vol. 5(1) Security of offshore oil and gas facilities: exclusion zones and ships’ routeing Mikhail Kashubsky and Anthony Morrison Abstract The article discusses the legality at international law of establishing security exclusion zones beyond 500 metres around offshore oil and gas facilities on the continental shelf and implementing ship routeing measures, and requiring ships, particularly foreign
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controversial dispute between countries that are claimants of the said islands. Fiery Cross Reef, which is a part of the Spratly archipelago, is located on the western edge of the Dangerous Ground, a large area in the southeast part of the South China Sea. In 2014, the People’s Republic of China commenced reclamation activity in Fiery Cross Reef and it has been converted into an artificial or man-made island. Fiery Cross Reef has been considered as China’s man-made military island outpost. Via satellite
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territories because it is a direct violation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. If they are not challenged, the surrounding nations will not be able to use these waters to engage in trade, nor will they be able to reap the profits of the natural resources, and fighting will erupt. Since the beginning of the nineteenth century, China has laid claim to several archipelagos in the South China Sea with The Spratly and Paracel Islands receiving the most attention. However, several countries
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Sea Shepherd The organization was founded in 1977 under the name Earth Force Society by Paul Watson, a former member of Greenpeace, after a dispute with that organization over what Watson saw as its lack of more aggressive intervention. Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization. They want to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world's oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species
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Dr. Charles Brooks EPS 202 - 104 30, April 2013 The Effects of Whaling and the Ecology Whaling is one of the oldest human activity for hunting done by man since the beginning of time. Whaling can come with a cost, and result with a set of consequences that can affect the ecology and the world. The consequences of whaling can not only endanger and extinct whales, but destroy and kill the oceans that can eventually kill all life. Whaling is the hunting of whales primarily for meat and oil. It
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ʺThe World Wildlife Fund (WWF) estimates that there were approximately 275,000 blue whales before the development of modern whaling in the mid-nineteenth century. By the 1960s, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimated that the number of blue whales had decreased to between 650 and 2,000.ʺ (Global Issues in Context Online Collection). The number of all whales has been decreasing and the Japanese whalers have been the major cause of the depletion of whales throughout
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