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Discuss Maritime Zones.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Oceanography

Maritime zones are legally defined belts of sea and seabed in which a coastal state has decreasing degrees of control as one moves away from the coast — from full sovereignty near the shore, to sovereign rights over resources further out, to the high seas and deep seabed shared by all.

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