Modifying the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention: New Initiatives on Governance of High Seas Fisheries Resources: the Straddling Stocks Negotiations

Abstract

219 Modifying the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention: New Initiatives on Governance of High Seas Fisheries Resources: the Straddling Stocks Negotiations* Jon M. Van Dyke William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa Introduction Dramatic changes are occurring in the legal regimes that govern the resources of the high seas. The 1982 LOS Convention came into force on 16 November 1994. But the legal regime it created to govern the non-living resources of the high seas2 has already been modified3 and so many new details and obligations are being added to the regime governing the high-seas