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Satellite-based vessel monitoring systems international legal aspects & developments in state practice

Year of publication 2000

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 45 p.

Author FAO;

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Booklet

Series title FAO Legal Papers

Series number #7, April 2000

Synopsis (short abstract) The conservation and management of marine living resources has been fraught with problems since decades and nothing indicates that this is likely to change in the near future. To set hopes high would also be unrealistic due to the fundamental characteristics of marine fish, namely that they are a common property and renewable natural resource incapable of being spatially confined.

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