The state of Alabama just reopened its coastal waters to fishing and shrimping on Monday.
The current law, which has been in effect since 1981, covers most of the country's coastal waters.
Scottish Power completed preliminary trials of the giant undersea turbine in the fast-flowing coastal waters off the Orkney Islands.
Chevron has caught a similar break in the shallow coastal waters of the Gulf of Mexico for a different reason.
And this is only one of at least two dozen similar reservoirs discovered in U.S. coastal waters since the early 1970s.
Kenya is just beginning to drill its first exploratory wells on the borders of Sudan and Somalia and in coastal waters.
Submarines are patrolling in the coastal waters near the city, officials said.
He called for more international support for AMISOM, the African Union's peacekeeping mission in Somalia, in its efforts to keep Somalia's coastal waters secure.
Mr Burnett said the results raised questions about stocks of tope - an inshore shark commonly found in British coastal waters - in the area.
George Bush, the incumbent, wants Congress to let oil firms drill in areas of Alaska and coastal waters that are currently off-limits for environmental reasons.
The 56-year-old actor and entrepreneur made headlines last year after BP chose his oil separation centrifuges to help clean coastal waters affected by the spill.
Attracted by plankton, krill and large shoals of herring, minke, fin, humpback, and the occasional killer whale habitually pass through the briny coastal waters between Donegal and Cork City.
The legislation doesn't clean anything -- it's merely a device to warn people of potential hazards associated with swimming in our coastal waters, the bill's advocates say.
Coordinated by the Reef Environmental Education Foundation, the event takes place each year during the first two weeks of July in coastal waters throughout the United States.
Mere talk of opening up America's coastal waters, the theory runs, has convinced traders of a big future boost to oil supplies and so pushed the price down.
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As well as killer whales, several species of shark have been recorded in the coastal waters, including the enormous basking shark, according to the Pembrokeshire National Park Authority.
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The DDG 1000 is a multimission surface ship designed to provide advanced land attack capability and contribute to military dominance in the shallow coastal waters known as the littorals.
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In 2007, the vast new Tupi field in Brazilian coastal waters was discovered in 200 meters of water below a massive layer of salt in hugely inhospitable geological conditions.
And we see it in our coastal waters, also.
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To create and maintain a database on water and the environment by use of official, validated national data complementary to the EUROWATERNET, related to transboundary water bodies (rivers, lakes and coastal waters).
Problems arise from conflicts between different uses of coastal land and waters, overexploitation of coastal resources, discharge of wastes and effluents into coastal waters, increasing stress by sea level change and growth of coastal population.
These UN entities have also advocated for a global, transparent and effective control and regulatory mechanism to be put in place for these activities, with the exception of small scale scientific research studies within coastal waters.
They want borrowing powers, control over company taxation (perhaps with a view to a tax-cutting strategy) and control over the Crown Estate in Scotland (which has implications for what goes on in coastal waters and harbours).
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist had expressed opposition to exploring coastal waters, but he said this week he supports McCain's plan to lift the moratorium and would not rule out letting his state choose to drill offshore.
In 2008, the 193 Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) decided that no further ocean fertilization activities for whatever purpose should be carried out in non-coastal waters until there was stronger scientific justification, assessed through a global regulatory mechanism.
The potential for discovery is enormous especially because all the majors left the Gulf of Mexico to seek oil and gas reserves outside U.S. Coastal waters in the belief that whatever was in the Gulf to find had been found years or decades ago.
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The implications for coastal areas and waters with specific characteristics will be discussed.
National or local control to be established over our own waters through "zonal management, coastal management or in some other way".
Lurking beneath the azure waters that wash up on countless coastal and island beaches and vacation spots is the potential for a devastating tsunami.
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