Fish Population Dynamic and Stock Assessment

10.5.4. Utilization of the living resources

• The coastal state shall promote the objective of optimum utilization of the living resources in the exclusive economic zone…
• The coastal State shall determine its capacity to harvest the living resources of the exclusive economic zone. Where the coastal State does not have the capacity to harvest the entire allowable catch, it shall ….. give other States access to the surplus of the allowable catch…..
• In giving access to other states….the coastal State shall take into account all relevant factors including……the economy of the coastal State concerned and its other national interests----the requirements of developing States………….and the need to minimize economic dislocation in States whose nationals have habitually fished in the zone or which have made substantial efforts in research and identification of the stocks.
• Nationals of other States fishing in the exclusive economic zone shall comply with the conservation measures…..and regulations of the coastal State. These…..may relate …..to the following:

a) Licensing of fishermen, fishing vessels, and equipment including payment of fees…

b) .. ..species which may be caught…. Quotas of catch during any period;

c) Regulating the seasons and areas of fishing, the types, sizes and amount of gear and the numbers, sizes and types of fishing vessels that may be used.

d) Fixing the age and size of fish….that may be caught.

e) Specifying information required of fishing vessels, including catch and effort statistics and vessel position reports:

f) Requiring….fisheries research programmes…and reporting of associated scientific data.

g) The placing of observers or trainees on board such vessels…

h) The landing of all or any part of the catch..in the coastal State.

i) Terms and conditions relating to joint ventures or other cooperative arrangements.

j) …training of personnel and the transfer of fisheries technology, including…fisheries research.

k) Enforcement procedures.

63. Stocks occurring within the exclusive economic zones of two or more coastal States or both win the exclusive economic zone and in an area beyond and adjacent to it.

1. Where the same stock or stocks of associated species occur within the exclusive economic zones of two or more coastal States, these States shell seek….to agree upon the measures necessary to….ensure the conservation and development of such stocks…..High migratory species.

1….States whose national fish…..for highly migratory species…..shall cooperate with a view to ensuring conservation……and optium utilization of such species…….both within and beyond the exclusive economic zone…….Marine mammals.

Nothing…..restricts the right of a coastal state…..to regulate the exploitation of marine mammals more strictly than provided for in this part. States shall co-operate with a view to Anadromous Stocks.

1. States in whose rivers anndromous fish originate shall have the primary interest in and responsibility for such stocks.

2. Right of the coastal State over the Coninental Shelf

3. The natural resources referred to in this part consist of the mineral and other non-living resources of the sea-bed together with living organisms belonging to sedentary species, that is to say, organisms which, at the harvestable stage, either are immobile on or under the sea-bed or are unable to move except in constant physical contact with the sea-bed or the subsoil.

207. Pollution from land-based sources.

1. States shall…..prevent, reduce, and control pollution from….rivers, estuaries, pipelines and outfall structures……

210. Pollution by Dumping

States shall….prevent, reduce and control….dumping