Coast Guard stations `Vajra` for vigil around EEZ

The US reiterated Wednesday that it supports Cyprus's right to explore for energy in its offshore areas. Invited to comment on a report in a Cypriot newspaper about explorations in Cyprus Exclusive Economic Zone, a State Department official said ...

A planned new law allows the military to arrest protesters in New Zealand's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and ramps up the penalties facing demonstrators to include jail terms of up to a year and fines reaching NZ$100,000 ($84,000). Greenpeace said ...

Agreement will designate area in EEZ as jointly managed waters Kyodo, Staff Report Online: Apr 10, 2013 Print: Apr 11, 2013 Last Modfied: Apr 10, 2013 Japan and Taiwan concluded a long-awaited fisheries agreement Wednesday in Taipei after officials ...

. (The Daily Star/Dalati Nohra/HO BEIRUT: Cyprus Energy, Commerce, Industry and Tourism Minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis said Thursday his country was seeking to increase its cooperation with Lebanon in gas and oil exploration, adding that the ...

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The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislative caucus yesterday urged the government to abolish its temporary enforcement line in the Bashi Channel and assert its rights in its 200 nautical mile (370km) exclusive economic zone (EEZ) amid ...

Imposing a ban is one thing. Enforcing it is quite another. As well as losing revenue by banning fishing in its exclusive zone, it risks spending its meagre resources on trying to enforce the ban—in all probability, quite ineffectively...Palau is ...

The New Caledonian government has decided to the ban fishing of sharks, which are being decimated to feed growing demand for luxury goods. Authorities in the French territory say it has imposed a ban to fish, capture, detention or commercialisation ...

Undersea mining developer Chatham Rock Phosphate expects to be the first minerals company to have an environmental consent application considered under the Exclusive Economic Zone legislation. Chief executive Chris Castle said today he is delighted ...