On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:15 PM, maning sambale <emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hi Murlwe, >> >> I don't think that municipal/provincial waters should be clamped to >> the national waters. >> >> According to the UNCLOS, national waters are those that are within 12 >> nautical miles (about 22km) from the coastline. According to the >> Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998, municipal waters are within 15 >> kilometers of the coastline. In addition, there is yet no rule on how >> to deal with overlapping municipal waters. > > According to the Fisheries Code: > Where two (2) municipalities are so situated on opposite shores that > there is less than thirty (30) kilometers of marine waters between > them, the third line shall be equally distant from the opposite shore > of the respective municipalities.
Let me clarify, there's a problem with the Fisheries Code's conflict resolution in that it disadvantages municipalities that have offshore islands. This research paper provides a very nice detailed description of the problem including illustrations and examples:http://www.scribd.com/doc/4938593/Archipelagic-Principle-Towards-Charting-of-the-Municipal-Waters _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
