📑 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Part 3, Section 2, Article 42, Paragraph 1

" Subject to the provisions of this section, States bordering straits may adopt laws and regulations relating to transit passage through straits, in respect of all or any of the following: (a) the safety of navigation and the regulation of maritime traffic, as provided in article 41; (b) the prevention, reduction and control of pollution, by giving effect to applicable international regulations regarding the discharge of oil, oily wastes and other noxious substances in the strait; (c) with respect to fishing vessels, the prevention of fishing, including the stowage of fishing gear; (d) the loading or unloading of any commodity, currency or person in contravention of the customs, fiscal, immigration or sanitary laws and regulations of States bordering straits"

⌚ Date Published: 1982-12-10
⚖️ Instrument Type: Convention
Country: 🊕🉄 All Countries
🌍 Continent : International
📜Instrument: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
UNCLOS_en_Page32 - aticles 40, 41 & 42

DEFINITION OF TERMS IN THIS CLAUSE



🔑 Bord
Bord

➡ Rivage, berge, côte d’une étendue d’eau. Un bord de mer.


🔑 Control
Control

➡ Refers to the various restrictions (measures) that managers can impose to regulate fishing.


🔑 FIS
FIS

➡ Refers to the joint France-Cote d´Ivoire-Senegal fleet that targets tropical tunas off Africa.


🔑 FIS
FIS

➡ Désigne la flotte commune France-Côte d'IvoireSénégal qui cible les thons tropicaux au large de l'Afrique.


🔑 Fish
Fish

➡ harvest of uncultured fish from water bodies.


🔑 Fish
Fish

➡ cold-blooded aquatic vertebrate with gills, no digits, and no limbs other than fins which swims by using its fins and tail.


🔑 Fishing
Fishing

➡ Sector or activity of harvesting fish from the wild.


🔑 Fishing gear
Fishing gear

➡ Any tool, device, equipment, implement or appliance used to capture, catch, collect or harvest living aquatic resources (aquatic animals and plants).


🔑 Fishing vessel
Fishing vessel

➡ A fishing vessel shall be any boat, no matter its size, that is used in activities connected with fisheries.


🔑 Passage
Passage

➡ Passage means navigation through the territorial sea for the purpose of: a) traversing that sea without entering internal waters or calling at a roadstead or port facility outside internal waters; or (b) proceeding to or from internal waters or a call at such roadstead or port facility.


🔑 Passage
Passage

➡ On entend par «passage» le fait de naviguer dans la mer territoriale aux fins de: a) la traverser sans entrer dans les eaux intérieures ni faire escale dans une rade ou une installation portuaire située en dehors des eaux intérieures ou b) se rendre dans les eaux intérieures ou les quitter, ou faire escale dans une telle rade ou installation portuaire ou la quitter.


🔑 Strait
Strait

➡ a narrow passage of water that connects two larger bodies of water.


🔑 Transit passage
Transit passage

➡ exercise of the freedom of navigation and overflight solely for the purpose of continuous and expeditious transit of the strait between one part of the high seas or an exclusive economic zone and another part of the high seas or an exclusive economic zone.