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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] Actually, what the CIA are referring to is the fact that the Canadian Coast Guard in the past has left Canadian waters to monitor Washington-state-based fishing boats that intercept spring salmon runs heading towards BC rivers while the fish are passing through US waters. It's part of the whole salmon ruckus, because Olympia and D.C. say there are enough fish to catch that there can be an unlimited-haul fishery within a season starting on day x and ending on day y, while Victoria and Ottawa want everybody to wait until a minimum replenishment stock reenters the rivers to spawn before fishing commences. Things have gotten ugly in the past, but nowhere near as ugly as on the Atlantic coast, where international courts upheld the rights of the Canadian Coast Guard to monitor fishing outside of the 200 mile Canadian claim. About seven years ago the Spanish trawler [i]Asai[/i] was caught with an illegally-sized net catching Turbot outside Canadian waters, the CCG boarded their ship and arrested the crew. The Spanish appealed Canada's right to do so and lost, indeed, the rest of the EU sided against Spain and supported Canada in the whole mess, IIRC. Basically, what this means is that there certainly is precedent for legal intervention of activity occuring more than 200 miles of one's coast. Like I was telling Omega over ICQ, international law isn't like the US Constitution in that every possible thing that can happen is defined... it's more like British Parliamentary law which runs more on custom and precedent than a few set documents. You Americans are all-too-quick to jump on the wording of treaties and agreements when they help you and all-too-eager to blatantly disregard them when they don't *cough* ABM *cough* Treaty of Ottawa *cough* International Criminal Court [/QB][/QUOTE]
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