Coastal state fisheries management : a review of Australian enforcement action in the Heard and McDonald Islands Australian Fishing Zone

• Main Author: R Baird
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Law; environmental protection; fisheries; marine resources; Antarctic; Heard Island; Heard; McDonald Islands; Atlas Cove; 12 Mile; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30002881; https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Coastal_state_fisheries_management_a_review_of_Australian_enforcement_action_in_the_Heard_and_McDonald_Islands_Australian_Fishing_Zone/20537913

In 1953 the Heard and McDonald Islands Act, which formalised the transfer of sovereignty over the two named sub-Antarctic islands from the United Kingdom, was passed by the Australian Government. For the ensuing 40 years, Australian management of the Islands was uneventful. The first subAntarctic sc...