Exclusive economic zone of Russia explained
The Russian Federation has the fourth-largest exclusive economic zone of 7566673km2 with 200nmi from its shores.[1]
Geography
The EEZ borders with Norway, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland to the west, the United States to the east, Japan, North Korea and South Korea to the south east and Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Turkey and Ukraine to the south.
Disputes
Active
Japan
There is a longstanding dispute with Japan over the southern part of the Kuril islands. The dispute dates back to the Soviet Union and the Yalta Agreement (February 1945). The United States maintains that until a peace treaty between Japan and Russia is concluded, the disputed Northern Territories remain under Russian control via General Order No. 1.[3]
Resolved
Norway
- In 2010, the Norway and Russia dispute of both territorial sea and EEZ with regard to the Svalbard archipelago as it affects Russia's EEZ due to its unique treaty status was resolved. A treaty was agreed in principle in April 2010 between the two states and subsequently officially ratified, resolving this demarcation dispute.[4] The agreement was signed in Murmansk on 15 September 2010.[5]
Peanut Hole
- In the Sea of Okhotsk, a region outside the Russian EEZ, known as the Peanut Hole, was being exploited by other nations, due to fish from the Russian EEZ moving in and out of the Peanut Hole, and the hole being out of Russian jurisdiction. The UN later determined that the whole Peanut Hole was Russian in March 2014.[6]
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Sea Around Us – Fisheries, Ecosystems and Biodiversity . 1 April 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140102024111/http://www.seaaroundus.org/eez/ . 2 January 2014.
- Web site: Sea Around Us Project – Data and Visualization . 1 April 2017 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060427022538/http://saup.fisheries.ubc.ca/eez/eez.aspx . 27 April 2006 .
- Bruce A. Elleman, Michael R. Nichols and Matthew J. Ouimet, A Historical Reevaluation of America's Role in the Kuril Islands Dispute, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 71, No. 4 (Winter, 1998–1999), pp. 489–504
- https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/world/europe/28norway.html Russia and Norway Reach Accord on Barents Sea
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/15/russia-norway-arctic-border-dispute Russia and Norway resolve Arctic border dispute
- Annex XI Draft Agreement on Straddling and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks (III) . 2024-05-28 . United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. 10.1163/9789004249639_rwunclos_laos_9789041100351_641_672 .