" In giving access to other States to its exclusive economic zone under this article, the coastal State shall take into account all relevant factors, including, inter alia, the significance of the living resources of the area to the economy of the coastal State concerned and its other national interests, the provisions of articles 69 and 70, the requirements of developing States in the subregion or region in harvesting part of the surplus and the need to minimize economic dislocation in States whose nationals have habitually fished in the zone or which have made substantial efforts in research and identification of stocks."
DEFINITION OF TERMS IN THIS CLAUSE
β‘ land beside or near to the sea or ocean
β‘ Abbreviation for Exclusive Economic Zone (defined in the Law of the Sea Convention).
β‘ Refers to the joint France-Cote dΒ΄Ivoire-Senegal fleet that targets tropical tunas off Africa.
β‘ harvest of uncultured fish from water bodies.
β‘ cold-blooded aquatic vertebrate with gills, no digits, and no limbs other than fins which swims by using its fins and tail.
β‘ the salt water that covers most of the earth's surface and surrounds its continents and islands
β‘ subpopulations of a particular species of aquatic resource, for which intrinsic parameters are traditionally regarded as the significant factors determining the stock's population dynamics, while extrinsic factors are traditionally ignored.