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Patterns of Development in International Fishery Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

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The uncertainty surrounding the outcome of the imminent Law of the Sea Conference is inevitable in the light of the lack of consensus on many of the most pressing problems of ocean law. Nowhere is this lack of agreement more evident than in the law regulating the world’s fishery resources.

During the past few years the attention of international lawyers and experts in related disciplines has been focused on the crucial considerations of continental shelf and ocean bed resources. Yet the legal problems related to international fisheries persist and increase.

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Copyright © The Canadian Council on International Law / Conseil Canadien de Droit International, representing the Board of Editors, Canadian Yearbook of International Law / Comité de Rédaction, Annuaire Canadien de Droit International 1974

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1 A brief account of this dispute is given by Azzam, Issam, “The Dispute between France and Brazil over Lobster Fishing Rights in the Atlantic,” 13 I.C.L.Q. 1459 (1964).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Northedge, and Dorelan, , International Disputes: The Political Aspects 2425 (1st ed., 1971).Google Scholar

3 Costa v. E.N.E.L., G.J.E.C. 1964, English translation in (1964), 2 C.M.L. Rev. 197.

4 R.S.C. 1970, 1st Supp., c. 2.

5 Done at Brussels, November 29, 1969. For text, see 9 Intl. Leg. Mat. 25–44 (1970).

6 Done at Brussels, November 29, 1969. For text, see ibid., 45–64.

7 H.C. Deb. (Can.), 1970, Vol. VI, at 6027.

8 Jennings, R. Y. , “A Changing International Law of the Sea,” 31 Camb.L.J. 32, 43 (1972).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

9 Ibid.

10 Ibid.

11 Jenks, C. Wilfred, A New World of Law 143 (1969).Google Scholar

12 (1973) 2 Minutes of the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Forestry (House of Commons) 21.