Coastal water boundaries: Issues and jurisdictions

Abstract

In this paper we will examine the problems for resource management that arise because of uncertain boundaries and jurisdiction in marine waters. A survey will be made of cases of such issues from the local to the international level of conflict. These include private versus public rights in waters and implications for mariculture, constitutional dispute over control of pollution and resource development disagreements between Canada and other individual nations over boundaries (e.g. Georges Bank) and the settlement of an outer limit to national jurisdiction vis-a-vis the international community. In concluding we will review new concepts in applying what are essentially land use concepts of spatial organization for management to the sea. © 1979, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.