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1982 UNCLOS +30: Confronting New Complexities in the Protection of Biodiversity and Marine Living Resources in the High Seas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2017
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2 Seamounts are underwater mountains that rise from the seafloor and provide important habitat for biodiversity. There are an estimated 200,000 seamounts globally. See http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/marine/marine_our_work/marine_governance/seamounts/about_/seamounts/.
3 1833 U.N.T.S. 3 (Dec. 10, 1982) (1982 Losc). See also 3 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982: A Commentary (Satya N. Nandán & Shabtai Rosenne eds., 1995).
4 Fish stocks that are found only in the high seas. See Molenaar, Erik J., Addressing Regulatory Gaps in High Seas Fisheries, 20 Int’l J. Mar. & Coastal L. 553 (2005)Google Scholar.
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13 Id.
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