HC Deb 24 May 1973 vol 857 cc151-2W
Mr. Laurance Reed

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list in the OFFICIAL REPORT those countries which now claim exclusive fisheries jurisdiction up to 50 miles or more from their coastline.

Mr. Anthony Royle

Yes. The following are the claims to fisheries jurisdiction, and to other forms of jurisdiction embracing fisheries jurisdiction, including claims to full sovereignty, over areas of the sea 50 miles or more from baselines, which are known to Her Majesty's Government. We are not necessarily informed of such claims, and the list may therefore not be fully comprehensive. We have protested and expressly reserved our rights and those of our nationals, in every such case which has been brought to our attention.

(1) if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the percentage of gross national product made in overseas aid by countries in the EEC in each of the past five years on the basis of international sources;

(2) if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the amounts made in overseas aid by countries in the EEC in each of the past five years, on the basis of international sources.

Mr. Wood

The following is the information for the last five years for which the figures are available:

Argentina 200 miles (territorial sea)
Brazil 200 miles (territorial sea)
Chile 200 miles
Costa Rica 200 miles
Ecuador 200 miles (territorial sea)
El Salvador 200 miles (territorial sea)
Gabon 100 miles (territorial sea)
Gambia 50 miles (territorial sea)
Ghana 30 miles (territorial sea)
Guinea 130 miles (territorial sea)
Iceland 50 miles
Morocco 70 miles
Muscat and Oman 50 miles
Nicaragua 200 miles
Nigeria 30 miles (territorial sea)
Pakistan 50 miles
Panama 200 miles (territorial sea)
Peru 200 miles (territorial sea)
Philippines 280 miles (within limits defined by geographical co-ordinates not related to distance from coastline)
Senegal 122 miles
Sierra Leone 200 miles (territorial sea)
Uruguay 200 miles (territorial sea)
Vietnam (South) 50 miles