A Study on Taiwan-Japan Fishery Agreement: A viewpoint of Sea Power Theory

• Main Authors: HSIEH,CHEN-CHI, 謝禎棋
• Other Authors: TANG,MING-HUA
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4d23dq

碩士 === 國防大學 === 戰略研究所 === 104 === In June 1972, the United States hung over the administrative jurisdiction of Diaoyutai Islands to Japan. This action triggered the Diaoyutai Movement in Taiwan. In November 1994, after the commencement of the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), Japan proclaimed a policy for a 200 sea-mile exclusive economic zone, which includes Taiwan’s Diaoyutai Islands nearby waters surrounding. This has caused a number of fishery conflicts between Taiwan and Japan. Sixteen fishery negotiations have been conducted since then in order to reach an agreement regarding the overlapping fishing areas whereas these negotiations were in vain. In 2012, Diaoyutai Islands sovereignty dispute surging occasion, Taiwan has proposed the East China Sea Peace Initiative. September 10th in the same year, Japan nationalized Diaoyutai Islands, which caused strong reactions from the ROC and the PRC. In September 2012 and January 2013, the vessels of the ROC Coast Guard Administration, in order to express the Diaoyutai Island’s sovereignty and maintaining fishing rights, conducted two intense watering fights with Japanese Coast Guard vessels in Diaoyutai Islands water area. In the meantime, the PRC marine surveillance ships have repeatedly entered the waters around Diaoyutai Islands as well. During the strategic tension in the East China Sea, Japan signed a Taiwan-Japan fishery agreement with ROC in April 10 of 2013, which expands Taiwan’s fishing areas in the East China Sea. This study attempts to review the processes of previous fisheries negotiations between Taiwan and Japan in order to examine the association with the disputes over sovereignty of the Diaoyutai Islands, as well as the role played by the maritime law enforcement organizations during the Diaoyutai Islands’ sovereignty dispute via the methodological tool namely Level of Analysis.