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Preferred term

territorial waters (en)  

Definition

  • Information The area beyond the tidal base line of the open coasts of a country over which that country exercises full control except for innocent passage of foreign vessels. Set at a maximum of 12 nautical miles in breadth by the 1982 Law of the Sea Treaty, the United States claims territorial waters three nautical miles in width.

    Created: 9/9/19

    (en)

Is part of subvocabulary

  • Fishery related term

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http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7677

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