Beginning at a point on the high water mark at the easterly extremity of East Random Head, as shown on Canadian Hydrographic Service Charts 4545 and 4546, editions dated May 6, 1983 and January 24, 1964, respectively; THENCE in a straight line to a point on the high water mark at the easterly extremity of West Random Head; THENCE following the high water mark in a westerly direction to a point on the shore at Latitude 48°03′04″N. ...[+++], Longitude 53°38′42″W.; THENCE in a straight line to a point on the high water mark of Middle Cliff at Latitude 48°03′54″N., Longitude 53°40′26″W.; THENCE following the high water mark in a westerly and northerly direction to the easterly extremity of Red Point; THENCE in a straight line to a point on the high water mark at the westerly extremity of Brown Mead; THENCE following the high water mark in a southerly and easterly direction to the point of beginning.

Thence northerly along the ordinary high water mark of the western shore of said lake to its intersection with the ordinary high water mark of the left bank of an unnamed stream, and continuing northerly along the ordinary high water mark of the left bank of said stream to point 220028LWM as shown on sheet 8 of 13 of a Descriptive Map Plan registered in said office as 2690, a copy of which is recorded in said records as 77971, said point being further described as the intersection of the ordinary high water mark of the left bank of said stream with the ordinary high water mark of Tay Sound at approximate latitude 72°19′55″ and approximat ...[+++]e longitude 78°43′50″;

Fifthly, the Lighthouse Reserve, being that part of Section 13, Prevost Island, Cowichan District, more particularly described as follows: Commencing from the high water mark at a point distant 22.42 chains from the southwest corner of said section; thence across an arm of the sea N 70° 30′ E, 6.20 chains to the high water mark on the north side of the said arm: this is the place of commencement; thence N 08° 00′ E, 7.24 chains; thence N 21° 30′ W, 11.79 chains; thence in a southeasterly direction along the coast line high water mark to Portlock Point; thence in a westerly direction continuing along the coast line high water mark to ...[+++] the said place of commencement, containing 7 1/3 acres, more or less [PID 009-724-095];

In line with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, RFMOs are international organisations through which coastal states and other states fishing on the high seas cooperate in the conservation and management of fish stocks, particularly highly migratory or straddling fish stocks*, in a particular geographic area.

The absence of a regional fisheries management organisation or arrangement does not exempt States from their obligation under the law of the Sea to adopt with respect to their nationals such measures as may be necessary for the conservation of the living resources of the high seas, including the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems against the harmful effects of fishing activities.

Contrary to the provisions of the Law of the Sea (1982 UN Convention and 1995 New York Agreement), the Parties with a genuine interest owing to their high-seas fishing activities, including the European Community, were not invited to take part in the negotiation of this Agreement and consequently their interests were not taken into account in the articles of the act.