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On February 3, 1983, the men aboard Americus and Altair, two state-of-the-art crabbing vessels, docked in their home port of Anacortes, Washington, prepared to begin a grueling three-month season fishing in the notorious Bering Sea. Eleven days later, on Valentine's Day, the overturned hull of the Americus was found drifting in calm seas, with no record of even a single distress call or trace of its seven-man crew. The Altair vanished altogether. Despite the desperate search that followed, no e...

This session of the Regional Commission for Fisheries, attended by five members and six invited organisations, acknowledged the importance of having an instrument for the protection of the marine environment, added two species to the priority list, agreed to work on harmonizing data submitted by different countries, and decided to proceed with the standard FAO aquaculture data questionnaires.

Piracy, international disputes over undersea oil and gas, and chronic overfishing have left our oceans in turmoil. How can we resolve these issues? International law states that a coastal country has territorial rights for 12 miles into the sea, yet, in practice many countries have virtually no control over their own waters. Denise Russell provides a thorough examination of the politics of the sea, from environmental issues, to water economics and governance of the waters. She reveals how we...

A new international maritime order was forged in the early modern age, yet until now histories of the period have dealt almost exclusively with the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants shifts attention to the Mediterranean, providing a major history of an important but neglected sphere of the early modern maritime world, and upending the conventional view of the Mediterranean as a religious frontier where Christians and Muslims met to do battle. Molly Greene investiga...

Australia and Canada have been at the forefront of efforts to operationalize integrated oceans and coastal management. Throughout the 1990s both countries devoted considerable effort to developing strategies to give effect to international ocean management obligations. This key book focuses on principles of marine environmental conservation and management, maritime regulation and enforcement, and regional maritime planning and implementation. With contributions from respected scholars, this inf...

A comprehensive and fully updated annotation of the Marine Insurance Act 1906, setting out the authorities on which the legislation was based and the manner in which the legislation has been construed, with cross-references to the Institute Clauses.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the economics of the business of maritime transport. It provides an economic explanation of four aspects of maritime transport, namely, the demand, the supply, the market and the strategy. The book first explains why seaborne trade happens and what its development trends are; it then analyses the main features of shipping supply and how various shipping markets function; the book finally addresses the critical strategic issues of the shipping b...

This work provides a comprehensive review of issues concerning the world's oceans. This volume covers central themes in: ocean policy and research, including recent Law of the Sea cases; fisheries conservation and governance; environmental issues, such as global climate change, pollution, coastal zone management, and changes in regional ecosystems; the shipping industry; and international trade. Special topics include: a marine park proposal for the Spratly Islands; the North-South conflict; Aus...

A collection of incisive essays emerging from the second Fleet Historical Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, A Nation's Navy documents for the first time the evolution of a distinctive Canadian naval identity. Contributors explore a wealth of pivotal issues: the popular perception of the Canadian navy, the navy as an instrument of national policy, the impact of various wars and conflicts, the navy as an expression of Canadian society, the distinctive role of women and the integration of francop...

Marine War Risks is the only book devoted to drawing together and analysing the insurance of commercial shipping against war risks. It brings together legal principles, case law and legislation with the practice of the insurance market in order to answer many difficult questions concerning liabilities, claims and extent of cover.

The book deals with a wide variety of subject areas relating to the maritime movement of goods, from the nature of cargo vessels and containerisation, global maritime organisations, through the use of international terms of delivery and freight costs, to the means and methods of developing strategies for greater efficiency in the international maritime movement of goods.

The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) entered into force in November 1994. This insightful book offers in-depth appraisals of the contributions of jurisprudence to this major achievement of international law, tracing the impact that courts and tribunals have had on the development and clarification of various provisions of UNCLOS over the past quarter-century. Exploring the most pressing issues and recent developments concerning the oceans, leading authors discuss the influence of j...

A very different and unique theme is portrayed in this work. With characters borrowed from either history or mythologies, each has its own story to narrate. Waiting souls dwelling in Styx in the after-life, lend life to this tale. With each one narrating his own idiosyncratic experience, this is a captivating tale!

A Catch Documentation Scheme helps determine whether fish originate from catches that comply with applicable national, regional and international conservation and management measures, established in accordance with relevant international obligations. These Voluntary Guidelines for Catch Documentation Schemes were elaborated in response to concerns expressed over the continued threat to marine habitats and ecosystems represented by illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing, and the negative imp...