Proclamation dated March 9, 1977 Establishing a Fisheries Zone Contiguous to the Territorial Sea of the Virgin Islands (S.R.O. 4/1977). Country/Territory British Virgin Islands (UK) Document type Miscellaneous Date 1977 Source FAO, FAOLEX Original source Official publication, p. 280. Subject Sea Keyword Maritime zone EEZ-Exclusive Economic Zone Sovereignty Geographical area Americas, Caribbean, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, Small Island Developing States Abstract There is established for the Virgin Islands a fisheries zone contiguous to the territorial sea of the Virgin Islands (art.1). The fisheries zone has as its inner boundary the outer limits of the territorial sea of the Virgin Islands and as its seaward boundary a line drawn so that each point on the line is two hundred nautical sea miles from the nearest point on the low-water line on the coast or other baseline from which the territorial sea is measured or, unless another line is declared by Proclamation, the median line where this is less than 200 nautical miles from the baseline. The median line is a line every point of which is equidistant from the nearest point of the baseline of the Virgin Islands and the corresponding baselines of other countries or territories (art.2). The same jurisdiction in respect of fisheries will be exercised in the fisheries zone as exists in the territorial sea (art.3). Full text English