• 122 Countries Agree on Marine Pollution Strategy -- Convention delegates from 122 countries have reached agreement on an international convention controlling the production and use of 12 persistent organic pollutants (POPs) regarded as the most toxic in the world. The agreement was concluded in Johannesburg, South Africa, on December 10 and is expected to be signed at a Stockholm conference in May 2001. (Added: 5-Jun-2003 Hits: 862 Rating: 4.00 Votes: 3) Rate It

• Antarctica Treaty Purports to Protect Ocean -- The Madrid Protocol on the Protection of the Antarctic Environment purports to protect the Antarctic Ocean. It provides rules for waste disposal at sea, requires environmental impact statements for proposed activities, designates Antarctica as a natural reserve, and bans mining. UNFORTUNATELY, its effectiveness is limited by unclear terms, lack of adequate enforcement, and provisions allowing exemptions from its requirements. (Added: 28-May-2003 Hits: 601 Rating: 5.00 Votes: 2) Rate It

• APEC meeting on ocean conservation -- The first-ever Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative meeting on the role the ocean plays in regional economies will convene. (Added: 25-May-2003 Hits: 482 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It

• Arctic experts say UN sea treaty could benefit US -- The United States could claim potentially oil-rich territory hundred of miles (km) out into the Arctic Ocean if it signed the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea, members of the federal science panel said. (Added: 28-May-2003 Hits: 549 Rating: 5.50 Votes: 2) Rate It

• Environmentalists say international management needed to save oceans -- The world should impose environmental rules on the high seas and stop treating international waters as a "no man's land" if marine environments are to be saved, according to a report issued Tuesday by an international conference of ocean activists. (Added: 22-Aug-2003 Hits: 592 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• G8 Leaders Pledge Marine Protection, Clean Water -- The G8 leaders called for measures to prevent marine pollution and improve tanker safety, and adopted a plan of action to help halve the number of people without access to clean water and sanitation by 2015. (Added: 22-Aug-2003 Hits: 414 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Global Marine Body Deals with Shipbreaking, Oil Spills -- The hazards of shipbreaking, single hull oil tankers, and stowaways in ships' ballast water are on the agenda this week as the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization, the UN agency with responsibility for the safety of shipping and the prevention of marine pollution by ships, meets in London. (Added: 29-Aug-2003 Hits: 478 Rating: 1.00 Votes: 1) Rate It

• Governments plan for sustainable fisheries -- (1999) Ministers and senior representatives from some 120 countries endorsed three new action plans for more sustainable fisheries at a two-day international conference in Rome sponsored by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. (Added: 25-May-2003 Hits: 427 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Historic Global Fisheries Agreement Enters into Force -- "A global treaty to address over-fishing on the high seas enters into force today, opening a new era in international fishery management. The U.S. is among thirty nations to ratify this binding United Nations agreement, which sets new, compulsory standards for managing highly migratory and shared fishery resources." (Added: 15-May-2003 Hits: 432 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• International Marine Fisheries -- Fish stocks migrate across jurisdictions and do not recognize international borders. Nations approach fisheries conservation and management differently. This document from the Congressional Research Service describes international fisheries agreements between the U.S. and other countries. (Added: 23-May-2003 Hits: 406 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Japan Angry at IWC After Whaling Plans Blocked -- Japan voiced its disgust at the International Whaling Commission Wednesday after anti-whaling nations blocked bids to restart commercial whaling but stopped short of a walkout that could tear the divided world body apart. (Added: 22-Aug-2003 Hits: 404 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Japan PM opposes withdrawing from whaling forum -- Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has said that Japan -- one of the world's biggest consumers of whale meat -- should not leave the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and should keep seeking support inside the group for its bid to restart commercial whaling. (Added: 29-Aug-2003 Hits: 353 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• LAW OF THE SEA TREATY WOULD DEEP-SIX U.S. SOVEREIGNTY -- Investor's Business Daily (Added: 11-Feb-2005 Hits: 350 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Oceanlaw: Internet Guide to International Fisheries Law (Added: 24-Jun-2003 Hits: 509 Rating: 9.67 Votes: 3) Rate It

• Seabed Arms Control Treaty -- In the 1960s, advances in the technology of oceanography and greatly increased interest in the resources of the ocean floor led to concern that the absence of clearly established rules of law might lead nations to use the seabed as a new environment for military installations, including those capable of launching nuclear weapons. This treaty was meant to prevent that. (Added: 28-May-2003 Hits: 510 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

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