Marshall Islands Maritime Zones Declaration Act 2016 (P.L. 2016-5).

This Act provides for the declaration of maritime zones of the Marshall Islands and defines the boundaries of those zones and the jurisdiction of the Marshall Islands in those zones. Maritime zones are the Territorial Sea, Archipelagic Waters, the Contiguous Zone, the Exclusive Economic Zone and the Continental Shelf. The internal waters of the Republic are all waters on the landward side of the low-water line and closing lines described in the section that defines the baselines of the Territorial Sea. Archipelagic baselines are used to delimit maritime zones. The sovereignty of the Republic of the Marshall Islands extends to its land areas, internal waters, local government waters, territorial sea and archipelagic waters, and to the airspace over them and the seabed and subsoil under them, and the resources contained in them. The Act also defines rights of other states in the Maritime Zones of the Marshall Islands.
Within the EEZ and Continental Shelf, the Republic has sovereign rights with respect to, among other things, the natural resources, whether living or non-living and the right to protection the marine environment. “conservation and management” includes all rules, regulations methods and measures that: (i) are required to build, restore or maintain, or are useful in building, restoring or maintaining, any fishery resources or the marine environment. (ii) are designed to ensure that: (A) a supply of food and other products may be taken, and recreational benefits obtained, on a continuing basis; (B) Irreversible or long-term ill effects on fishery resources or the marine environment are avoided; and (C) there will be a multiplicity of options available. “Fishery resource” means any fishery, stock of fish, species of fish or habitat of fish with respect to use of those resources.