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1 Implementing and Enforcing Regional Environmental Policies in Comparative Perspective by Norman A. Graham James Madison College, Michigan State University and Anna K. Graham Attorney at Law Paper prepared for presentation at the Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, March 26 29, 2008, San Francisco. 12 Introduction The struggle for a comprehensive EU Constitution raised attention to the challenge of focusing initiatives in technical or practical cooperation that are both closer to the real (albeit prosaic) interests of European citizens and worthy of serious attention in the near term. EU member states increasingly confront the realities of both economic globalization and environmental degradation, but progress has thus far been in fits and starts, with much left to be done, particularly in national implementation, inspection, and enforcement. If the EU emerges out of the constitution crisis energized as a stronger political community, the Common Fisheries Policy may well be an area for enhanced attention. But the questions of viable implementation and enforcement loom large. The green member states of the EU, led by Germany, the Netherlands and Scandinavia are predictably well out in front of what Alberta Sbragia (1997) (following Peter Haas, 1993) refers to as the large number of laggard EU member states on environmental policy generally. Nonetheless, many would regard the EU s commitment and progress here as an important model for other regional governance efforts, and certainly well ahead of the global governance efforts thus far. There is some clarity in the legal environment for commercial use and pollution control of the Aegean Sea, Dardanelles, Sea of Marmara, Bosporus Strait, and the Black Sea, but these areas are not without political contention. Conflict between Greece and Turkey over territorial claims in the Aegean appears to have moderated somewhat for several reasons, but a complete solution is not imminent. 23 At the same time, water quality and fishing stocks are likely degraded from chemical and sewage dumping into the rivers of Eastern Europe, which then flow into the Black Sea without adequate regional monitoring or control, and there is continuing pressure from Russia and other Black Sea shippers for more rapid and higher volume traffic through Turkish waters toward the Aegean with attendant collision and pollution risks. There are efforts to enhance maritime and resource cooperation in the Black Sea region, but one probably cannot yet regard these as concrete steps toward effective regional governance, and Turkish candidacy (but not assured membership) complicates the prospect for EU governance. This paper is essentially a progress report of some on going research in Greece and Turkey in connection with an annual study abroad program co sponsored by Michigan State University, the National Technical University of Athens, the Hellenic Center for Marine Research, the University of Crete, the University of the Aegean, Istanbul University and Koc University. The overarching research question is quite simply: what has been the impact of the EU s common fisheries policy on the fishing industries and fisheries in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin? A series of sub questions include: 1) have the fishing fleets been reduced in size, number and power? 2) has employment in the fishing sector been reduced? 3) have there been effective inspection and enforcement efforts to ensure compliance with CFP regulations on catch size and methods? 4) has there been interaction between efforts to control water pollution in the region and the efforts to maintain or rescue threatened fishery stocks? 34 Global Fisheries in Crisis Our global fisheries are in a parlous state. Systematic overfishing of commercial species combined with the bycatch of unmarketable fish and sea mammals has left our oceans and seas gravely depleted: The FAO has estimated that about 10% of the world s fisheries are depleted, 15 18% are overexploited, and 47 50% are fully exploited, leaving just one quarter of the world s fish populations underexploited or moderately exploited. 1 Apart from the obvious environmental wrong of destroying so much diversity and beauty as our ocean resources possess, some 20% of the world s population derives 20% of its protein from fish, and the countries most dependent on fish as a food source and economic commodity are primarily in the developing world. 2 Two modern trends have contributed to this potentially disastrous state: 1) government subsidies to the fishing industry, and 2) modern technology for industrialized fishing, which harvests not only too much of the targeted species but an appalling amount of bycatch as well. 3 The governments of coastal nations have tended to encourage a more vigorous fishing industry than is sustainable because it provides employment in coastal communities where other forms of employment may be limited, giving fishermen and fish processors disproportionate political clout. 4 The legal regimes in place, moreover, have historically done little to address the problem of overfishing, particularly on the high seas, where illegal fishing is rampant; indeed, the incentives all tend toward milking the commons of the ocean for swift profits regardless of the future. 5 The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) gave ownership of the fisheries to coastal states by setting up territorial waters up to 12 nautical miles from the mainland and Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) up to 200 miles; these are the areas where fish are most 45 abundant, corresponding more or less to the continental shelf zones. The rationale was that coastal states would then have incentives to regulate and conserve marine resources. But the reality became something different: coastal nations exhausted their own fisheries and moved on to the high seas. Coastal states in the developing world sold their fishing rights to wealthier nations, and when fleets from Europe exhausted the North Atlantic, they moved to the shores of Africa. 6 UNCLOS attempted to check overfishing by imposing a responsibility on coastal states to conserve the living resource within their EEZs, in Arts , and even on the high seas, in Arts , but the language was consistently counterbalanced by the right to exploit, and little could actually be done to police the high seas in particular. In 1995, however, some of the shortcomings of UNCLOS were addressed in the Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of December 10, 1982 Relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks (Fish Stocks Treaty). This treaty aims to limit high seas fishing, placing it under the authority of regional organizations and giving coastal nations enhanced abilities to police the high seas. 7 Unfortunately, six of the world s top fish producers, including China and Japan, are not signatories to the Fish Stock Treaty. 8 Another action of the U.N., in 1991, led to a global ban on driftnets, one of the more wasteful and destructive techniques modern fishing has used to take entire schools of fish as well as masses of bycatch. 9 The EU banned driftnets in These agreements have helped, but much more needs to be done if the global ocean resource is to be preserved. The UN has considered placing a complete moratorium on bottom trawling, another high tech fishing technique which literally scrapes the seabed to trap bottom dwelling species, 56 destroying their breeding habitat at the same time and contributing to even longer term ecological problems. There is, however, no consensus as yet, with the fishing industry crying foul. 11 Marine reserves where no fishing is permitted have shown promise for regenerating stocks, 12 and moratoria on fishing for individual species (like cod) help as well. Some have gone so far as to suggest that the global community needs to ban any of the modern means by which fishing has become too efficient to sustain. 13 The answer is surely that all of these measures need to be pursued. What can we expect from regional institutions as part of the response to the crisis? The European Union has been relatively aggressive in addressing overfishing, and rightly so, given that its traditional fisheries are some of the most overfished in the world. The following graphic, compiled by the European Environment Agency, gives an overview of the European seas, where the red represents overfished stocks, the blue represents stocks within safe biological limits, and the white represents the percentages which have not been adequately assessed. 14 67 The health of Fisheries in the Mediterranean are affected significantly by pollution that has a wide range of sources. As researchers at the University of Pavia, Italy put it: the Mediterranean and the Black Sea form an integrated oceanographic system. The waters of the Black Sea, which are at a higher level than those of the Mediterranean, flow into the Mediterranean basin through the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles. The Black Sea collects waters coming from an enormous drainage basin which includes a large part of central and east Europe and Turkey. Due to the pollution brought mainly by rivers, the Black Sea is dying; as its polluted waters continuously flow into the Mediterranean, all marine life, ecological balance and biological resources are seriously threatened in the whole system. (http://www.unipv.it/webcib/edu_mediterraneo_uk.html) Environmental Policies and Programs in the European Union The EU s progress on common environmental policies is commendable, but implementation due to domestic economic and social concerns remains limited in key areas beyond the green members. One can see this in all of the main areas of EU environmental progress. Peterson and Bomberg (1999, pp ) point to more than 200 pieces of legislation by the late 1990s on environmental quality or on the environmental aspects of internal market mechanisms relating to: controlling air and water pollution, protection from chemical and nuclear hazards and noise pollution, waste management, and wildlife protection. These include a series of six Environmental Action Programmes (EAPs) since 1973 which have come to focus increasingly on sustainable use of natural resources and management of wastes. The most recent (10 year) EAP, issued in 2002, identified four key environmental priorities: climate change, nature and biodiversity, environment and health, 78 and natural resources and waste. Seven thematic strategies were proposed as Commission Directives by 2006 on air pollution, marine environment, prevention and recycling of waste, sustainable use of resources, urban environment, soil, and pesticides. Concerns from a variety of EU Commission and member state actors arose, fearing that new legislative action in areas such as air pollution could give rise to high costs for industry and undermine the EU s ambitions to become the most competitive knowledge economy by 2010 (the Lisbon agenda ). (EurActiv.com, 21 February 2007). The Commission and the European Environmental Agency have not been unduly cowed by these arguments, but these concerns do tend to limit resource allocation and national implementation efforts. This progress can be seen against the backdrop of emerging distinctions in the direction and focus of other major regional and state actors. For example, Robert Kagan (2003) discussed the emerging division between Europe and the U.S. in Of Paradise and Power. Jeremy Rifkin, in The European Dream, argued that Europe is not only different from the US, but also is arguably better possessing both a brighter future and one that will directly challenge the US model. In his words: The European Dream emphasizes community relationships over individual autonomy, cultural diversity over assimilation, quality of life over the accumulation of wealth, sustainable development over unlimited material growth, deep play over unrelenting toil, universal human rights and the rights of nature over property rights, and global cooperation over the unilateral exercise of power (2004, p. 3). On the other hand, one can argue that the EU and many of its member states have done little to address the growing global economic competition challenges facing them. The recent uproar in the U.S. over the competitive manufacturing trade challenge of China (see, for example, Shenkar, 2005; and Fishman, 2005), and India s growing strength in software and services (see, for example, 89 Prestowitz, 2005) has not been matched by similar concern, let alone any real policy adjustment in Europe. Indeed, the labor and youth unrest, so clearly evident in France in late 2005 and 2006, helps to explain the political reluctance to take even the most timid structural reforms, particularly anything that seeks to rein in social welfare guarantees and expenditures. Is there a European solution to this, perhaps with serious implementation of the precepts of the Lisbon process? How does this constrain environmental programming? What can the EU accomplish reasonably, given these constraints and debates? While EU members are still suffering under what has been a lengthy period of stagnation, high unemployment, and seemingly ineffectual economic policies, the core of the region must be regarded as prosperous and stable in large measure. The project of European economic integration must be given due credit for much of this achievement an achievement that even the strongest "Euro pessimists" would hardly expect to crumble in the near to medium term future. The prospect for remedy through closer economic and political union in the EU also seems firmly constrained. Andrew Moravcsik s argument on Why Europe Said No to the Constitution is somewhat persuasive. He concludes: The EU s distinctive system of multilevel governance is the only new form of state organization to emerge and prosper since the rise of the welfare state at the turn of the twentieth century. Now it is a mature constitutional order, one that no longer needs to move forward to legitimate its past and present successes. Left behind must be the European centralizers and democratizers for whom ever closer union remains an end in itself. They will insist that the answer to failed democracy is more democracy and the answer to a failed constitution is another constitution. But Europe has moved beyond them. (Moravcsik, 2005, p. 259) Europe has moved beyond them in one sense. The EU works as an increasingly common market. Not everyone agrees that the harmonization of economic policies reflected in the effort to establish 910 the Eurozone has been successful (see Gurfinkiel, 2005), but again, the progress must be regarded as an impressive achievement for mature states with long histories of enmity and independence. Is Europe, though, a project only to be completed by achievement of total economic integration and political union? Or is it better to implement what has been agreed upon in key sectors, while possibly adding several more members beyond the present 27, to stabilize the region and enhance the prospects of effective policy responses to transnational challenges? (See Graham, 2007 for an expanded argument on this point.) There may be greater prospects for both enhanced stability for Eurasia and realistic adjustment (largely national and local) to the imperatives of both globalization and environmental degradation with a strategy that is more inclusive (including Turkey!). The EU s Common Fisheries Policy Initial steps toward a Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) were taken in 1970 in response to provisions in the original Treaty of Rome, Article 38.. The initial measures set rules for access to fishing grounds, markets and structures. It was agreed that, in principle, EU fishermen should have equal access to Member States' waters. However, in order to ensure that smaller vessels could continue to fish close to their home ports, a coastal area was reserved for local fishermen traditionally working those areas. A common market in fish products was developed, along with structural policy to coordinate the modernization of fishing vessels and facilities. In 1976, Member States followed international law of the sea negotiations to extend resource control from 12 to 200 miles from their coasts. The European Union became central to managing fisheries in the combined member state waters and to conduct international negotiations. The CFP was consolidated in 1983, taking a precautionary posture to 1) protect and conserve living aquatic resources; 2) provide for their 1011 sustainable exploitation; and 3) minimize the impact of fishing activities on marine eco systems. The overall goals were to promote efficient fishing within economically viable and competitive fisheries and aquaculture industry, providing a fair standard of living for those dependent on fishing activities, but with the interests of consumers in mind. The CFP included Common measures in: Conservation and limitation of the environmental impact of fishing Structures and fleet management Markets Relations with other regions and institutions The CFP sets maximum quantities of fish that can safely be caught every year. The Council of Ministers endeavors to use scientific findings to decide on the amount of fish that EU fishermen will be allowed to catch the following year, taking into account the biological, economic and social dimension of fishing. This system of quantities is referred to as the total allowable catches (TACs) which is divided among EU member states to establish national quotas. A system of technical rules, for example, on net mesh sizes, closed areas, appropriate fishing gear, and minimum fish sizes is established. Catches and landings must be recorded in special log books. ( For more detail on the CFP provisions, see: for an analysis of the politics of the evolution of the policy, see Lequesne, 1994) The CFP was reformed substantially in 2002, with a focus on limitation of catches and technical measures for long term management of fisheries. Multi year recovery plans were established for threatened stocks, and the EU Commission launched an Action Plan to integrate environmental 1112 protection requirements into the CFP. This effort put some attention on by catches and discards, especially on juvenile fish, dolphins, sharks or marine birds particularly affected by fishing activities. Economic incentives to encourage more appropriate fishing activities and gear. Funding was established through the Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance (FIFG) for a variety of related projects, especially temporary cessation of fishing activities, modernization of fishing fleets and reducing excess fishing capacity. Some support of socio economic measures was also envisioned. The FIFG covered the period , and is to be replaced with the European Fisheries Fund for Market measures included work on: common marketing standards for fresh products on quality, grades, packaging and labeling; forming voluntary producers organizations (POs) to help stabilize markets; and a price support system which sets minimum prices below which fish products cannot be sold; and rules for trade with non EU countries. The extension of national territorial limits had an impact on EU member vessels which had traditionally fished them on long distance trips. A series of negotiations were opened with third countries then to seek compensation or access. After 2002, the EU developed a focus on Partnership agreements with third countries for responsible/sustainable/rational fishing. The regulation of total allowable catches is a crucial part of the effort to reduce overfishing and promote sustainability. As noted above, commercial fishing vessels are required to maintain logs of their catches available for inspection. The EU has established a modest team of (perhaps 25 or so) inspectors, but implementation and enforcement is left largely to the national authorities. But an EU 1213 Fisheries Control Agency was established with the 2002 CFP reform, in order to help coordinate EU and national resources and promote uniformity. These efforts and mechanisms must be regarded as serious and impressive in some respects, but the reliance on national implementation and enforcement in an domestic context under pressure by heightened global competition, social welfare expenditure challenges, and unemployment levels has been problematic. The CFP reforms of 2002 were motivated by the sheer fact that in many cases and sub regions, far too many fish had been taken to achieve biological, environmental and economical sustainability. Action Plans adopted since the 2002 Reforms: sustainable development of European aquaculture ( 125 Kb). the integration of environmental protection requirements into the CFP ( 35 Kb). the eradication of illegal fishing ( 48 Kb) in order to ensure sustainable fisheries beyond EU waters. measures to counter the social, economic and regional consequences of fleet restructuring ( 134 Kb). the creation of a single inspection structure ( 203 Kb) the reduction of discards of fish ( 321 Kb) Mediterranean Fisheries Action Plan ( 185 Kb) National level enforcement in cooperation with the EU can work in some cases. In early 2007, the EU adopted a Commission Regulation which provides for the reduction of certain fishing 1314 quotas for the UK and Ireland over the period 2007 to This is in response to overfishing of herring and mackerel quotas during the period 2001 to 2005, determined by UK investigations. Given concern about negative social and economic impacts on the fleets and processing industry, the maximum annual reduction under this regulation will be 15% of the annual quota to be set by the Council in future TACs and quotas regulations. European Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs Joe Borg commented, Over quota landings has a cost not only on account of their impact on the fish stocks but also in economic and social terms for the industry concerned. I welcome the full cooperation of both the UK and Ireland in this matter. We now need to move forward to ensure that this type of activities cannot happen again. The UK's national quotas were exceeded by 112,546 tons in the case of mackerel and 43,961 tons in the case of herring. Over the same period the Irish mackerel quota was overfished by 33,486 tons. The two Member States involved reported details of the overfishing to the Commission, in full compliance with their obligations under Community law. Excess fishing capacity remains a crucial issue in relation to several states. Greece has the largest number of fishing vessels (18,045 as of 2006), while Spain has the largest fleet by tonnage, more than twice that of number two (the UK). Total employment in fishing was 19,705 in Greece, as of 2005 (declining from 22,290 in 1995). Turkey employed 33,614 in 1995, up from 32,000 in 1990 (Eurostat, 2007, pp ). The fishing resources of the Mediterranean have long been considered over exploited. (see EU COM (2002) 535, p. 7) 1415 As noted above, some stress was placed on Mediterranean fisheries through adoption, in October 2002, of an Action Plan focused on sustainability. This included attention to declaring fisheries protection zones with enhanced cooperation in management and modernization. Unfortunately, effective cooperation must extend to non members and candidate members. The complicated maritime and political relations between Greece and Turkey help to illustrate the challenge of addressing these fishery concerns. The Eastern Mediterranean Basin: Legal Framework The Aegean Disputes A continuing core disagreement between Greece and Turkey centers on rights over the Aegean Sea, namely: a) the extent of the territorial waters, b) the extent of national airspace, c) EEZs and the limits of the continental shelf, and d) national claims to some disputed islands and the militarization of others. We do not concern ourselves here with issues of airspace or of militarization, but we will focus rather on the territorial waters and continental shelf disputes, with their implications for fisheries and environmental protections. We also do not consider the continually vexing problem of Cyprus. Under the 1982 UNCLOS, coastal nations can ordinarily claim exclusive jurisdiction over adjacent waters up to 12 nautical miles from the mean low water mark, although by no means all 1516 states do so; foreign vessels have a right to innocent passage within this zone (Arts. 2 and 3). Both Greece and Turkey claim a territorial waters zone of only 6 nautical miles in the Aegean. 15 Beyond this 12 mile limit, there is a contiguous zone of another 12 miles, within which nations can assert limited enforcement of national laws, such as of customs and immigration (Art. 33). Beyond that, an EEZ often extends out 200 miles from the coast; this is a zone of commercial exploitation. Few nations bordering the Mediterranean claim an EEZ in it; neither Greece nor Turkey does, although Turkey does assert its EEZ claims in the Black Sea. 16 Islands belonging to a coastal state are entitled to the same territorial waters under Art. 121 of UNCLOS (which gives Greece a distinct advantage in the Aegean): 2. Except as provided for in paragraph 3, the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf of an island are determined in accordance with the provisions of this Convention applicable to other land territory. 3. Rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own shall have no exclusive economic zone or continental shelf. Greece is a signatory to UNCLOS and uses it to justify its stance in the Aegean, but since it has not been in its national interest to do so, Turkey has never signed on to UNCLOS and does not recognize its consequences for itself. 17 Greece has never actually attempted to claim its full 12 mile territorial zone around its mainland and islands in the Aegean, but it reserves the right to extend its territorial waters to 12 miles in the future, a right to which it deems it is entitled by force of positive and customary law; given that Turkey is not a party to the governing conventions, Greece also relies on custom to argue its case. Greece only acknowledges one actual dispute over Aegean issues, i.e. sovereignty over the continental shelf, and it prefers a legal remedy, i.e. resolution by the ICJ. Turkey has not unnaturally 1617 been concerned that if Greece did lay claim to all of the waters and the seabed to which it might be entitled by UNCLOS, Turkey s access to the Aegean and its resources would be effectually eliminated; Turkey asserts an equitable claim that the 12 mile limit in the Aegean cannot be applied, and maintains that an attempt by Greece to claim 12 miles would constitute a casus belli. 18 It is noteworthy in this context that Turkey s shoreline along the Aegean is its longest, at 2805 km, with a shoreline of 1695 km on the Black Sea and 1677 km on the Mediterranean. 19 Turkey maintains that there are multiple claims in dispute (the 12 mile territorial waters, air space issues, ownership of the continental shelf and the so called gray islands, those whose national allegiance is in doubt) and it prefers negotiation between the two states to resolve issues, or a political solution. 20 The 1958 Convention on the Continental Shelf as well as UNCLOS (Arts , 82), moreover, recognizes sovereign rights of coastal states over the natural resources of the continental shelf, both living species and non living resources. 21 The zone of the continental shelf zone incorporates the shallows subjacent to the shoreline, up to 200 meters deep; it extends either to the actual limit of the continental shelf or to 200 nautical miles, giving considerable control over fisheries to the coastal nation. 22 Customary law, on the other hand, generally only recognized a nation s sovereignty to the end of the territorial waters. 23 Drawing the boundaries of both the EEZ and the continental shelf can be very difficult where the zones would overlap or other physical factors intervene; more than 50 treaties are in force between nations whose continental shelf zones impinge on one another. 24 The Aegean Sea is itself only 186 miles wide to begin with, and the situation is complicated by its many islands, most of which Greece can claim and many of which lie very close to Turkey s shores18 Sovereignty over disputed islands in the Aegean, such as Imia (or Kardak to the Turks), may seem a minor point on the face of it, since they amount to little more than uninhabited rocks, but populating them and exerting economic control over them also confers control over their territorial waters under UNCLOS Art. 121, above, as well as their airspace and their seabeds, and thus becomes critical especially to Turkey in defending its rather tenuous rights to access to the Aegean. Controversy over Imia, which is very close to the Turkish mainland, nearly precipitated a military clash in 1996, when both countries attempted to lay claim to the islets and interpreted one another s efforts as attempts to extend their rights in general in the Aegean. We return now to issues of the continental shelf. One European dispute over demarcation of the continental shelf gave rise to the North Sea Continental Shelf Cases, [1969] I.C.J. 1, involving the Federal Republic of Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands. Denmark and the Netherlands wished to use the equidistance principle to delimit the contested boundary, meaning that a line would be drawn midway between two chosen points on either side of the boundary, and this arbitrary line would become the boundary. Since this would have reduced the German shelf considerably, however, Germany contested the method of determination. In this case, the court found that use of the equidistance method of delimitation was not obligatory as between the Parties and that, if such delimitation produced overlapping areas, they were to be divided among the Parties, in agreed proportions, or failing agreement, equally, unless they decided on a regime of joint jurisdiction, user or exploitation. In other words, the parties were ordered to negotiate an equitable solution. 26 This case has direct bearing on the situation in the Aegean. Greece, by virtue of the Convention on the Continental Shelf and its numerous islands, all with their haloes of territorial rights, 1819 could technically lay claim to almost all of the seabed of the Aegean, some 71.5%, as opposed to Turkey s 8.8%, the remainder being high seas and open to all. 27 This must be a matter of grave concern to Turkey, since it would effectively cut off shipping lanes between the Dardanelle Straits and the Mediterranean as well as most of the fishery. In 1973, moreover, a crisis was precipitated when Greece began exploration for oil and other minerals in the Aegean, prompting Turkey to do the same. 28 Both nations continued to exert this right in defiance of one another for some years afterward. In 1976, Greece applied to the ICJ both to declare that the Greek islands in the Aegean possessed their own continental shelf and also to delimit the boundary of the continental shelf in general. The ICJ refused to do so, stating that there was no proof of lasting harm to Greece s interests if it did not enjoin Turkey s activities, and also that Turkey had not consented to the court s jurisdiction. 29 This stalemate resulted in negotiations at Berne Switzerland and the Berne Protocol, setting out guidelines for negotiating the continental shelf dispute. One key provision of the Protocol was that neither country was allowed to take unilateral actions in the matter. 30 Since then the countries have violated this agreement and reaffirmed it, but have never reached consensus. Greece has continued to push for a legal solution, trial in a neutral court, while Turkey continues to push for a negotiated political settlement between the two countries. Where do the two parties wish to fix the divide? Greece proposes that the delimitation of the Aegean Sea Continental Shelf between Greece and Turkey should be effected by a median line between the Greek Aegean islands and such baselines on the Turkish coast established for delimiting its territorial water. 31 Greece claims all of the Aegean basin to a depth of 200 meters or the zone of 1920 exploitability. 32 Note here also that the Greek island of Samos is only 2 km. from the Turkish mainland. Turkey, on the other hand, would like to see a median line drawn between the coasts of the two nations, giving it rights to half of the Aegean seabed; this would, however, isolate a large number of Greek islands within Turkey s continental shelf zone. There is general agreement that relations between the countries have eased over the past few years, largely as a result of Greece s assistance to Turkey after the disastrous earthquake of The Aegean dispute, however, lingers on as evidence of the strained history between these two nations. What are the implications for the fisheries and environmental protections? An estimated 65% of commercial fish stocks in the Aegean have not been assessed for sustainability, but an estimated 10 20% of Mediterranean commercial species are deemed to be outside safe biological limits for sustainability. 34 Cooperation between Turkey and Greece is clearly necessary if the overall situation is to be assessed, monitored, and then addressed, in order to sustain declining stocks. Sovereignty over the contiguous zones gives a nation the power to regulate for sanitary purposes, an old fashioned term which is often construed by courts today to provide for regulation for environmental reasons which were not anticipated when treaties were drafted, while much of the purpose of granting a continental shelf zone is in allowing a coastal state preferential rights to its fisheries. Obviously, these rights are compromised when nations cannot agree on the boundaries. What is needed to resolve these issues? Turkey s belligerent attitude does not avail it, nor does Greece s rather smug reliance on its legal claims. Admitting Turkey into the EU would help, since it would entitle Turkey to access to EU member nations waters and to its negotiating bodies. 20 View more
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