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Illegal and unregulated fishing costs Argentina “one to two billion dollars”: Falklands the main culprit
Illegal, unregulated fishing mainly in the waters adjacent to the disputed South Atlantic islands of the Falklands, South Georgia and South Sandwich costs Argentina an estimate of anywhere from one to two billion dollars, according to CEO Eduardo Pucci, from OPRAS, an Organization for the Protection of Fishery Resources. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesSounds like a lot of “Sour Grapes” !! to Me, I suppose They could try patrolling that area of the Sea and then see how quickly the Royal Navy arrives to chase them out.
Aug 24th, 2020 - 08:41 am - Link - Report abuse +2First the oil, then fisheries, next they'll be whinging about tourists. I fail to understand how this trawling can be illegal. Perhaps we ought to make a claim to the sea adjacent to the FICZ. These fishing boats are outside their jurisdiction. They could as easily whine about anywhere else. They would do as well to stop the illegal fishing in their own waters before they start encroaching on Falklands waters.
Aug 24th, 2020 - 09:43 am - Link - Report abuse +1Thibnk Rathead will find that there is more regulation and freely available catch statsitics for the Falklands EEZ than there is for the Argentine one.
Aug 24th, 2020 - 10:03 am - Link - Report abuse +2An until Madam “hissy-fit” threw the dolly out of her pram for her 2nd time- FIG used to formally pass all that into the the Arg Fisheries commission and both countries co-operated on statistics and procedures to prevent overfishing- and illegal fishing by outsiders.
Do please at least make an effort at growing up Argentina.
Argentina's Continental Shelf Claims and The UN CLCA Commission (1 page):-
Aug 24th, 2020 - 10:15 am - Link - Report abuse +1https://www.academia.edu/33898951/Argentinas_Continental_Shelf_Claims_-The_UN_CLCS_Commission
And what does international law say about the ownership of natural resources?
This is a typical grumpy Argentina who we all know want every bit of wealth there is to be had from the southern continental shelf.
Aug 24th, 2020 - 10:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0It is not about sovereignty of our island but the absolute managed wealth we farm from it.
Human greed is what this is all about. Argentina is a struggling failing country and when one gets to that level they clutch at straws.
Debt ridden and shrinking economy will one day bring Argentina to its knees then the rest if latin America will move in and devour them.
The writing is in the wall.
Islander 1 agree 100%,, they seriously need to grow up,
Aug 24th, 2020 - 10:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Culprit? These boys need another kicking.
Aug 24th, 2020 - 11:36 am - Link - Report abuse +1Maybe we Falkland Islanders have a stronger case to claim the continental shelf Argentina so publically states belongs to them.Rather strange that the Falklands existed before Argentina became a country.
Aug 24th, 2020 - 06:56 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Using that information clearly we have a strong case to lay claim to more than we have already.
Unfortunately our country made a mistake by providing fishing information to Argentina. I always knew that it would end up with Argentina contemplating grabbing this new wealth that we enjoy.
Oil if it does ever get extracted well also be another big issue with these greedy people who just want to take everything we have.
38 years we have been free from Argentine dictators and we are not planning to change that any time soon.
Must be terribly frustrating for those that do want our fortune knowing that they can never get it and each padding year is giving the Islands the wealth they need to further develope.
More people also increases our strength as we move forward.
Sorry Argentina but you can shout all you want but we are staying put and living the life of our choosing thank you.
1958
Aug 24th, 2020 - 10:45 pm - Link - Report abuse +1“Islands generate their own territorial sea and continental shelf. Furthermore, the principle that islands should be treated as any other land territory for the purpose of delimiting the territorial sea, contiguous zone and continental shelf was expressly recognised in Article 10(1) of the 1958 Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone, and Article 1 of the 1958 Convention on the Continental Shelf. In so far as the continental shelf is concerned, the Convention on the Continental Shelf 1958, at Article 1(b) provided that the term 'Continental shelf' is used as referring inter alia 'to the seabed and subsoil of similar submarine areas adjacent to the coasts of islands'. Any insular formation, which is above water at high tide, therefore possesses a territorial sea and a continental shelf.”
[Islands Andrew J. Jacovides in Peaceful Order in the World's Oceans: Essays in Honor of Satya N. Nandan Michael Lodge & Myron Nordquist (eds) 2014]
”... in its Article 6 the convention outlined the process whereby a continental shelf adjacent to two or more states could be divided between them and provided that, in the absence of an agreement, the boundary would be the median. This last proviso suggested that the convention applied even to those states, like Argentina, which had refrained from signing it.”
[González M. A. The Genesis of the Falklands (Malvinas) Conflict 2014]
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