Protecting the Environment and Promoting Safe Navigation: Australia's System of Pilotage in the Torres Strait

Adam McCarthy

2007: Conference Proceedings

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Protecting the Environment and Promoting Safe Navigation: Australia's System of Pilotage in the Torres Strait

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Adam McCarthy

Published 2007-09-27

Keywords

marine environment,
compulsory pilotage,
marine safety,
IMO,
Torres Strait,
territorial sea,
fisheries,
marine navigation,
IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC),
IMO Resolution of the Marine Environment Protection Committee 2005,
Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas,
Navigation Act 1912,
right of innocent passage,
freedom of navigation,
UNCLOS 1982,
public international law

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Abstract

In this paper, McCarthy discusses Australia's system of pilotage in the Torres Strait, the national significance of the Torres Strait, the IMO resolution authorising the pilotage system, how it is being implemented domestically, and the practical effect of the system.

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