SIA North Star Ltd v. Public Prosecuting Authority (Norwegian Snow Crab Case)

• Main Author: Chiussi Curzi, Ludovica
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Sea—Fishing—Snow crab fishing—Treaties—Interpretation— Article 77 of United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea; 1982 — Coastal State — Continental shelf — Sedentary species — Treaty interpretation — Article 34 of Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties; 1969 — Whether snow crab a sedentary species — Spitsbergen Treaty; 1920 — Spitsbergen Fisheries Protection Zone—Articles 2 and 3 of Spitsbergen Treaty—; North Star; Norway; Finnmark; Snow crab; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11585/907882

In 2017, a Latvian shipping company and the Russian captain of one of the company’s vessels (“the defendants” and “the appellants”) were convicted by the Finnmark District Court of fishing for snow crabs on the Norwegian continental shelf without a valid permit. The vessel had a European Union permi...