パラオの海洋保護区が国連海洋法条約に疑義があることを、本来であれば最初から日本政府なり、笹川平和財団なりが指導すべきところ、前者は単なる無知（外務省、水産庁、国交省と顔を揃えて無知）後者は何十億円も出して支持してしまう始末。
それで、今安倍政権がレメンゲサウ政権にこの海洋保護区の変更を求めている。問題は誰もこの保護区案が国際条約に疑義がある事を指摘しない事だ。
私一人で叫んでいます。
オバマ政権の海洋保護色の強い海洋政策に反対を述べた、ハワイの、というかWestern Pacific Regional Fishery Management Councilという団体のコメントである。
ここに海洋保護区がUNCLOS61条に疑義がある事が書かれている。
Resolution on Potential Impacts of Expanding the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument to the Fisheries and Food Security of Hawai‘i and the Management of Fisheries as Mandated by the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
Approved by the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council on August 3, 2016
Whereas the Council adheres to the MSA whose provisions are consistent with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), including Article 61, “The coastal State taking into account the best scientific evidence available to it shall ensure through proper conservation and management measures that the maintenance of the living resources in the exclusive economic zone is not endangered by over exploitation,” and Article 62, “The coastal State shall promote the objective of optimum utilization of the living resources in the exclusive economic zone without prejudice to Article 61 and further determine its capacity to harvest the living resources of the exclusive economic zone. When the coastal state does not have the capacity to harvest the entire allowable catch, it shall ... give other States access to the surplus of the allowable catch”;
