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Editorial: The High Seas ‘Commons’: Imperative Regulation of Half Our Planet's Surface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Gunnar G. Schram
Affiliation:
Professor of International & Environmental Law, University of Iceland, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland
Nicholas Polunin
Affiliation:
Foundation for Environmental Conservation and of the World Council For The Biosphere.
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* Our thanks are due to Dr N.V.C. Polunin, of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, for adding this point and making some other valued suggestions for the improvement of this Editorial. — Ed.

For an instance that had engendered such a charge from the European Union, see the Canadian official Statement published (after sanctioned editing into the style of our Journal) on page 77 of this issue. It is, however, gratifying to note that, following the subsequent reaching of transatlantic agreement, the Spanish Government started disciplining their own fishermen, actually recalling an erring trawler from across the Atlantic Ocean — which augurs well for their future attitude and action. — Ed.