fishing zones
Designated catch waters
Fishing zones are designated areas of water where fishing is regulated or permitted.
Countries claim exclusive economic zones extending up to 200 nautical miles offshore, controlling who can fish there: The dispute over fishing zones strained relations between the two nations.
Zones may also specify what species can be caught or what methods are allowed.
- coastal watersSea areas near shores
- continental shelfSubmerged perimeter of landmass
- no-take zoneArea forbidding wildlife removal
- spawning groundsWhere fish reproduce
- commercial fisheriesIndustry catching sea life for sale
restricted areas · catch limits · estuaries · kelp forests · mangroves · seagrass beds · inland waterways · fish species · licenses · open season · trawling · gill nets · quotas · buoys · offshore · nets · fish markets · reefs
- fishing industrytrawling, fisherman, trawlers, trawl net, gillnetting
- fisheries and coast guardcoast guard, patrol, rescue, boats, fish
- fisheriesfisheries, fish stock, fish stocks, trawlers, fish quotas
- Black SeaBlack Sea, Bosporus, Bosphorus, Dardanelles, Crimea
- fishing regulationscatch limits, bag limits, license fees, closed seasons, licenses
- Irish Fishingtrawlers, trawling, nets, catches, catch limits
maritime jurisdiction
fishing zonesinternational waters
Ocean beyond national jurisdiction
open water · high seas · open ocean · commons · open seas