Abstract
M 4 AJOR COASTAL STATES, such as the United States and Canada, are now extending control over broad areas of the sea, despite the failure of successive sessions of the United Nations' Third Law of the Sea Conference to reach a formal agreement on new territorial boundaries or controls over offshore resources and activities. This trend represents a radical change in the centuries-old principle of freedom of the high seas which gave everyone a right to fish in the seas beyond a narrow coastal zone. As the accompanying map shows, 200mile zones in the North Pacific virtually carve the region up into national fishing seas.
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