January 6, 2023 - An “exclusive economic zone,” or “EEZ” is an area of the ocean, generally extending 200 nautical miles (230 miles) beyond a nation's territorial sea, within which a coastal nation has jurisdiction over both living and nonliving resources.

1 day ago - An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.

The U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) extends no more than 200 nautical miles from the territorial sea baseline and is adjacent to the 12 nautical mile territorial sea of the U.S., including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, ...

December 15, 2022 - UNCLOS was ratified in 1994, and since then the number of signatories has grown to more than 150 countries, with established EEZ territory taking up about 42 percent of the oceans in the 21st century. Beyond the waters of an EEZ is considered the territory of the high seas, areas that are accessible to all countries.

The Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is defined as an area extending up to 200 nautical miles from a coastal State's baseline, where the State has sovereign rights to explore, exploit, conserve, and manage natural resources, while all States retain the right to navigation and overflight.

EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE · Specific legal regime of the exclusive economic zone

April 8, 2025 - An “exclusive economic zone,” or “EEZ” is an area of the ocean, generally extending 200 nautical miles (230 miles) beyond a nation’s territorial sea, within which a coastal nation has jurisdiction over both living and nonliving resources.

May 21, 2021 - The EEZ is an Exclusive Economic Zone that generally include waters extending 200 nautical miles from a nation’s coastline in which the adjacent nation has jurisdiction

An exclusive economic zone, EEZ, is an area beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea, extending up to 200 nautical miles from the baseline,

August 14, 2025 - The exclusive economic zone is one of the most critical legal frameworks in maritime governance, impacting everything from fishing rights to security patrols. For governments, it ties directly to national sovereignty and maritime security; for ...

Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) are maritime areas established under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, allowing coastal states exclusive rights to the resources within these zones, which extend up to 200 nautical miles from ...

island territories out to 200 nauti- cal miles (see center spread) was · the Exclusive Economic Zone · (EEZ) of this Nation. This action · gives our Nation jurisdiction over · the vast living and nonliving re- sources within those 3.9 billion · acres. The importance of the EEZ ·

June 6, 2023 - The surface waters, as can be seen in the map, are international waters. An EEZ is a sea zone over which a state has special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources.

The United Nations Convention on ... Zone (EEZ) as generally extending 200 nautical miles from shore, within which the coastal state has the right to explore and exploit, and the responsibility to conserve and manage, both living and non-living resources....

January 6, 2025 - The continental shelf and the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) are distinct maritime zones (Figure 1). The continental shelf includes only the seabed and subsoil, whereas the EEZ also includes the water column.

January 12, 2023 - The EEZ is an area beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea, not extending beyond 200 nautical miles from the baseline of the territorial sea. The origin of the concept of the EEZ may go back to the practice of the Latin American States after ...

The EEZ is the most misunderstood of all the maritime zones by policymakers in States around the world. Unlike the territorial sea and the contiguous zone, the EEZ only allows for the previously mentioned resource rights and the law enforcement capacity to protect those rights.

The concept of the exclusive economic zone is an essential element of the "package" of compromises and trade-offs that constitutes the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea. It is a concept which has received rapid and widespread acceptance in state practice and is thus now considered by some ...

... Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is an area where a coastal state assumes jurisdiction over the exploration and exploitation of marine resources in its adjacent section of the continental shelf, taken to be a band extending 200 nautical miles (370.4 km) from the shore.

Dark blue areas on this map outline the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the United States and affiliated islands. The U.S. EEZ is larger than its land area.