Policymaking on the high seas
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The Mesmerizing Landscape of the Oceans
There are a lot of areas in the ocean where it's kind of unclear who owns or controls or has jurisdiction over which part. A lot of countries have made claims further out beyond 200 nautical miles and we're waiting for most of those claims to be resolved by this committee of scientists that we created in the 1990s. Sometimes countries like an unresolved border because it allows them to do what they want you know they don't want to restrict activities based on a settled border, sometimes they like it for domestic political purposes.
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