Subchapter III: Fishery Zones of Chapter 1: Fishery Zones and Regulation of Foreign Fishing

Subchapter III provides for the establishment of a territorial sea of 3 miles, an exclusive fishery zone of 12 miles and an extended fishery zone of 200 miles. The Trust Territory Government, the Government of the USA and the Palau Maritime Authority shall cooperate in the delimitation of extended fishery zone when it overlaps a zone of another nation (Para. 147). The Subchapter also provides that traditionally recognized fishing rights in submerged reef areas, wherever located within the fishery zones of the Republic, shall be preserved and respected in accordance with the regulations of the Authority.