The 1945 Truman Proclamation relating to the right to explore and explo

September 28, 1945 marked the time when the U.S. ventured in the exploitation of ocean imagerys such as oil and gas. President Truman issued a proclamation in favour of the country to explore and exploit these minerals below United States policy (Frazier 2009, p.3). The Truman proclamation firmly consolidated the distinction surrounded by the question of the judicial regime governing fisheries resources beyond the territorial sea and the regime governing mineral resources. As far as the legal concept of the Continental shelf was concerned, its main characteristics were established as a congenital prolongation of the states land territory (Currie, Forces & Oosterveld 2007, p.403). The Proclamation established a clear separation between the territorial sea and shelf, in which the coastal state could not extend its sovereignty, but exclusively under its jurisdiction and control. According to Byers (1999, p.91), the Truman Proclamation had been linked to the end of th e loving and economic needs of World War II where the development of applied science in the United States began to generate national interest in geographic expedition and exploitation of off-shore oil fields. This had very signifi movet legal implications, bearing in mind that for hundreds of years, sea resources had not been exploited under any jurisprudence by any state. Following this proclamation, the U.S. Congress enacted legislation in 1953 in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA), which addressed the control of resource exploitation at the continental shelf by both the national and state authorities. By so doing, the government wanted to ensure that natural resources at the coast and in the sea were exploited but in the right and legal manner. This perhaps would lead t... ...conomic fishing zone (EFZ) and 24 nm for contiguous coastal zones by the United Nations Convention of the faithfulness of the Sea (Currier, Forcese & Oosterveld 2007, p.404). Th is saw the eventual transmission of U.S. views to other parts of the terra firma since the UN had adopted the same laws. In conclusion, the regime of law on the continental shelf convention in regards to exploitation of natural resource was historic everyy developed from President Truman Proclamation. After the US proclaimed it sovereignty to go for seas natural resources, the country embarked on coming up with new laws that sought to ensure control of these sea portions. The Truman Proclamation can be said to have affected many legislative initiatives all over the world with regard to use of the sea subsoil and the amnionic fluid in general. Most of these legal effects are still snarl to hitherto.