The coastal State shall give appropriate publicity to any danger to navigation, of which it has knowledge, within its territorial sea. Under the Submerged Lands Act, a coastal states seaward boundary may be fixed by Supreme Court decree. 2. While the secretary-general of the United Nations receives instruments of ratification and accession and the UN provides support for meetings of states party to the convention, the United Nations Secretariat has no direct operational role in the implementation of the convention. Where a low-tide elevation is wholly situated at a distance exceeding the breadth of the territorial sea from the mainland or an island, it has no territorial sea of its own. Laws and regulations of the coastal State relating to innocent passage. Online Library of Liberty", "Chapter 1: International Law, Adoption of the Law of the Sea Convention Law of the Sea", "Table of claims to maritime jurisdiction (as at 15 July 2011)/maritime spaces of countries", "Chagos: A boundary dispute tips over a sovereignty ruling", "Professor Robert Beckman on the Role of UNCLOS in Maritime Disputes", "The Seizure and Recovery of the S.S. Mayaguez: Legal Analysis of United States Claims, Part 1", "Deep-sea mining is making the seabed the hottest real estate on Earth", Convention on Transit Trade of Land-locked States, Case No. Additionally, in order to control trafficking in archaeological and historical objects found at sea, a coastal State may presume that their removal from the seabed of the contiguous zone without its consent is unlawful. (Normally, a sea baseline follows the low-water line, but when the coastline is deeply indented, has fringing islands or is highly unstable, straight baselines may be used.) The coastal State may not levy execution against or arrest the ship for the purpose of any civil proceedings, save only in respect of obligations or liabilities assumed or incurred by the ship itself in the course or for the purpose of its voyage through the waters of the coastal State. 1. [5], In the early 20th century, some nations expressed their desire to extend national claims: to include mineral resources, to protect fish stocks, and to provide the means to enforce pollution controls. LOSC art. The portion of a coastal State's continental shelf that lies beyond the 200 nm limit is often called the extended continental shelf.