AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES|fisheries · ENVIRONMENT
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- offshore area | offshore marine area
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- Definition any part of the seabed and subsoil in a country's Continental Shelf plus the waters within that country's fishery limits apart from its internal waters and territorial sea Reference The Offshore Marine Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 2007, UK, http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1842/pdfs/uksi_20071842_en.pdf [19.9.2013]
- Comment This definition applies to the UK. See also "marine area" IATE:784762 and "offshore waters" IATE:3551517<>