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Prior to the negotiation of the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention which took place between 1973 and 1982 there was no effective control of fishing in coastal waters of any country and no coordinated conservation measures The Law of the Sea Treaty formally known as the Third United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea or UNCLOS III established a comprehensive set of rules governing the oceans Importantly UNCLOS encompassed the right of a coastal nation to implement exclusive fishing rights over its adjacent continental shelf to a distance of 200 miles 370 km from its coastline