" Existing agreements, traditional fishing rights and existing submarine cables: 1. Without prejudice to article 49, an archipelagic State shall respect existing agreements with other States and shall recognize traditional fishing rights and other legitimate activities of the immediately adjacent neighbouring States in certain areas falling within archipelagic waters. The terms and conditions for the exercise of such rights and activities, including the nature, the extent and the areas to which they apply, shall, at the request of any of the States concerned, be regulated by bilateral agreements between them. Such rights shall not be transferred to or shared with third States or their nationals."
DEFINITION OF TERMS IN THIS CLAUSE
➡ Groupement d’îles. un ensemble d’îles, y compris des parties d’îles, les eaux attenantes et les autres éléments naturels qui ont les uns avec les autres des rapports si étroits qu’ils forment intrinse`quement un tout géographique, économique et politique, ou qui sont historiquement considérés comme tels.
➡ State constituted wholly by one or more archipelagos and may include other islands.
➡ Refers to the joint France-Cote d´Ivoire-Senegal fleet that targets tropical tunas off Africa.
➡ Désigne la flotte commune France-Côte d'IvoireSénégal qui cible les thons tropicaux au large de l'Afrique.
➡ harvest of uncultured fish from water bodies.
➡ cold-blooded aquatic vertebrate with gills, no digits, and no limbs other than fins which swims by using its fins and tail.
➡ Sector or activity of harvesting fish from the wild.
➡ Celui qui est habile dans l'art de la navigation sur mer - qui sert à bord d'un bâtiment de l'État ou de la marine marchande; se dit d'un bateau ou d'un navire très endurant à la mer.
➡ A species that lives in midwater or close to the surface.
➡ a vehicle that can travel underwater, control its own movement and maintain its own life support.
➡ existing or located under the sea
➡ a liquid without colour, smell or taste that falls as rain, is in lakes, rivers and seas, and is used for drinking, washing, etc