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BARTLETT ACT [1 record]

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Record 1 2006-11-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Laws and Regulations
  • Maritime Law
OBS

In 1964, Congress passed the Bartlett Act (Pub. L. No 88-308, 78 Stat. 194) which excluded foreign vessels from fishing within the United States' territorial sea, defined as all ocean waters within three miles from the coast. Two years later, Congress passed the Contiguous Fisheries Zone Act (Pub. L. No. 89-658, 80 Stat. 908), which created a nine-mile contiguous zone extending out from the three-mile limit, from which foreign fishing vessels would be excluded. These acts and treaties failed to protect U.S. fisheries as they were intended to. The Bartlett Act provided no authority for federal management measures, limiting the federal government's role to data collection and law enforcement against foreign fishers. Other nations also found their fisheries to be suffering, as most treaties provided no means of enforcement against nations who had not chosen to enter into an agreement. As a result, several countries moved to extend the area of their marine jurisdiction. By 1975, of the parties involved in ongoing law-of-the-sea negotiations, sixty nations including the United States, favored a twelve-mile territorial sea and a two-hundred-mile resource conservation zone.

Key term(s)
  • Twelve Mile Fishery jurisdiction

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de lois et de règlements
  • Droit maritime
Key term(s)
  • Loi instituant une zone de pêche de 12 milles

Spanish

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