Subchapter III: Fishery Zones of Chapter 1: Fishery Zones and Regulation of Foreign Fishing Country/Territory Palau Document type Legislation Date 1990 Source FAO, FAOLEX Original source Palau National Code 1990 - Fishing (Title 27). Subject Fisheries, Sea Keyword Marine fisheries Traditional rights/customary rights Foreign fishing Maritime zone EEZ-Exclusive Economic Zone Territorial sea Geographical area Asia and the Pacific, Micronesia, Oceania, Small Island Developing States, South Pacific Abstract 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. Full text English Website www.paclii.org