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SOUTH ASIA AND NEAR EAST 



Country Territorial sea Fishing limits Other 



Afghanistan No coast - 



Ceylon 6 nnlles Smiles _ Claims right to establish conservation 



zones within 100 nautical miles of the 

 territorial sea. 



Cyprus 12 miles 12 miles.. 



India 6 miles. 100 miles 



Iran 12 miles 12 miles 



Iraq- do do 



Israel 6 miles 6 miles 



Jordan ..- 3 miles 3 miles... 



Kuwait.. Not available. ..- 



Lebanon do 6 miles 



Maldive Islands do do 



Nepal- -. No coast. 



Pakistan 12 miles 12 miles... Plus right to establish 100-mlle conserva- 

 tion zones. 



Saudi Arabia ...do do . . 



Syria do do Plus 6 miles necessary supervision zone. 



Turkey 6 miles do 



Yemen No claims 



1 Parties to the European Fisheries Convention which provides for the right to establish 3 miles exclusive fishing zone 

 seaward of 3-mile territorial sea plus additional 6-mile fishing zone restricted to the convention nations. 



2 Signatories of the European Fisheries Convention. 



Mr. Fascell. We tried to hold on to the best of both concepts, as I 

 see it, is that right ? 



Dr. Cain. Even within that where there had been traditional fishing 

 in the area between 3 and 9 miles we have reached certain agreements 

 for part of that to continue. 



Mr. Fascell. Dr. Chapman went on to say — and I would like to get 

 your comment on this — that this erosion of the 3-mile territorial sea 

 toward a 12-mile limit by the U.S. action and action of other nations, 

 the resolution adopted in the U.N. for a study of the resources of the 

 sea, and the more recent Malta proposal, have brought all of this to 

 a head. He says in view thereof we must now reexamine the whole sub- 

 ject of how ocean resources are to be utilized, and that regarding the 

 jurisdiction of nations, there are now three possibilities: 



First, to divide the ocean into numerous national lakes; 

 Second, to turn the entire high seas over to the U.N. to lease out 

 and make revenue from ; or 

 Third, preserve the status quo. 



Dr. Cain. The questions that Dr. Chapman raised have been under 

 consideration. There is a committee of the National Marine Council, 

 the chairmanship of which is with the State Department. The com- 

 mittee deals with the matter of international policy in the marine 

 sciences. They have been stud3nng this. They have background papers 

 that have been prepared on this. 



The position that State has come up with, which I referred to with 

 respect to the Malta proposal, and in which we concur, is that it is 

 entirely premature to enter into any negotiation at the moment to try 

 to settle such questions as this. 



I suppose in a sense what we are at now is maintenance of the status 

 quo, while we learn more about the nature of the seabed and the value 

 of the resources and the possibility of utilizing them. On the basis of 



