Time for a new international legal regime for ocean fertilization in the high seas?

Abstract

By providing a review of the current international legal regime for ocean fertilization in the high seas, this thesis considers the fundamental problems with this current regime, analyses alternative regimes put forward by legal academics and scientists and, having argued for the unsuitability of each of these alternative regimes, advocates for a better alternative: the incorporation of high seas ocean fertilization regulation within the framework of the "international legally binding instrument under the Law of the Sea Convention on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction" currently being developed by the United Nations.