THE ECONOMY OF THE SEA. MARINE RESOURCES OF EXTENDED CONTINENTAL SHELF

• Published in: Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas
• Main Authors: Spinelli, Micaela A.; Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Centro de Investigación y Medición Económica - CIME, Tomasini, Valeria; Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Centro de Investigación y Medición Económica - CIME, Dentice, Enrique; Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Centro de Investigación y Medición Económica - CIME
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad Nacional del Nordeste - UNNE 2022
• Subjects: continental shelf; marine resources; potentiality; environment and control of resources; plataforma continental; recursos marinos; potencialidad; medio ambiente y control de los recursos; Argentina; Argentine; Límite; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://repositorio.unne.edu.ar/handle/123456789/36544; https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/rfce/article/view/3732; https://doi.org/10.30972/rfce.0213732

There is a visible Argentina and another hidden under the sea. The latter is the natural extension of the mailand and has an enourmous potential in terms of resources. Thanks to the scientific, technical and legal work carried out during the last 20 years, we have a better picture of this hidden Argentina, allowing a new delimitation of the Continental Platform. Argentina presented a proposal to enforce these new limits to the Commission for the Limits of the Continental Shelf in 2009, and was studied since 2012 by a group of experts that analyzed the opinions of geologists, hydrologists and diplomats from Argentina on a seemingly unimportant issue: what is the size of underwater platform? This work was accumulated on severals documents, maps and other testimonies for several years, until Argentina was able to expand its continental platform from 200 miles to 350 miles, expanding the original surface by 35%. The Argentine continental shelf has now a surface area of more than 6,500,000 km2, almost twice as large as its mainland surface. This valuable expansion, not only reaffirms our rights over minerals, hydrocarbons and fishes, but it also has strategic implications related to The Malvinas, The South Atlantic Islands and The Antarctica. This work addresses the details of this exhaustive investigation, as well as the related economic impacts Hay una Argentina que se ve y otra oculta bajo el mar, con un enorme potencial de recursos y que es la prolongación natural de nuestro territorio. Gracias al trabajo científico, técnico y jurídico realizado durante los últimos 20 años esa Argentina se pudo conocer mejor, permitiendo demarcar el nuevo límite exterior de la Plataforma Continental Argentina. La propuesta la presentó el país en 2009 ante la Comisión de Límites de la Plataforma Continental y fue estudiado desde 2012 por una comisión de expertos que analizó los dictámenes de geólogos, hidrólogos y diplomáticos argentinos sobre algo que parecía sin importancia: ¿cuánto mide la plataforma submarina? Ese trabajo se ...