Sentence examples for high seas waters from inspiring English sources

He told me about a recent study of his on fishing on the "High Seas" - waters outside of territorial claims.

Fishing vessels, especially those fishing in high seas waters and under third party access agreements to EEZ waters (Exclusive Economic Zones, which can extend up to 200 nm from the coast), are highly mobile.

We confined our analysis to illegal and unreported catches (IU), namely those taken within an EEZ which are both illegal and retained, and which are usually unreported, and all unreported catches taken in high seas waters subject to a Regional Fisheries Management Organisation's (RFMO) jurisdiction.

Khouakhi, A. & Villarini, G. On the relationship between atmospheric rivers and high sea water levels along the U.S. west coast.

Higher sea water temperatures have attracted crabs on which the sharks feed, they said.

The Coast Guard enforces all applicable federal laws on the high seas and waters within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.

If nominally still in the category of international straits or high seas, these waters would become de facto a "no go" zone for the world's shipping.

High seas are waters outside national jurisdictions, and are in part governed by the United Nation's 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea, which has been approved by 165 nations and the European Union (but not the United States).

In the complicated case of the leatherback sea turtle, which uses the high seas and ocean waters governed by 32 individual countries, management of this threatened species is especially complex and will likely require international collaborations.

Fisheries was also seen as a situation that needed strict policies and regulations in order to protect the estimates of vast quantities of various marine species deemed to have move into Arctic waters as a result of over-fishing, sea temperature rise, and acidification in the high seas and coastal waters.

Without a new international system to regulate all human activity on the high seas, those international waters remain "a pirate zone," Mr. Thomson said.