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were adopted by the Group of Seventy-Seven. At every 

 conference the Group of Seventy-Seven met everyday all by 

 itself and decided what their position was going to be. 

 That was the position that was pretty much adopted because 

 there were so many of them. 



Well, we started by talking about Pacem in Maribus. 

 Elisabeth had the idea that maybe we could get together a 

 bunch of people from different countries and more or less 

 talk over what these problems were and what should be done 

 about them before the Law of the Sea Conference began. 



One of the people there I remember was later the 

 foreign minister of Mexico, whose name began with C. Not 

 Cassandra, not Casanova, but something like Casanova. 



Do you have a lot of other things you wanted to talk 

 about? 



Sharp: No, I don't. This is it actually. So I thought we might 

 bring this to a close. 



If you look at the Pacem in Maribus efforts and then 

 the larger issues that the Law of the Sea Conference had to 

 address, what looked to you as the biggest unresolved issues 

 so far? Scientific research? 



Reveller No, that's probably not unresolved. That is resolved, but 

 in a way that oceanographers don't like. It has been 

 certainly resolved. It's better than having no resolution. 



As I said, the deep-sea mining is, at the moment at 

 least, a non-issue because nobody is going to do it. Twenty 

 years from now it may however become an issue again. 



Fisheries management and fisheries development is in a 

 state of great flux because of the Exclusive Economic Zone 

 development which gives the coastal states a right to fish 

 in areas which were traditionally fished in by other people, 

 like off our coast. ## 



The Grand Banks and the Georgia Bank, but particularly 

 Grand Banks, was fished by Portuguese for 500 years, and now 

 they are frozen out. It's part of the Exclusive Economic 

 Zone of Canada. So that there has certainly been a 

 considerable upheaval in fisheries management and fisheries 

 development in a way that nobody really understands how it 

 will work out. 



My own opinion is that fisheries are not going to 

 develop very much beyond the present total catch of about 70 

 million tons a year; that's safely about what the ocean can 

 provide. Agriculture is far more important than fisheries. 

 Aquaculture is very promising as a way to increase the 

 marine harvest and the ocean harvest. The problem with 

 aquaculture is a place to do it. There are so many 

 conflicting uses of the coastal zone that there's no real 

 room for the ocean farmer in many areas . 



