1. Régionalisation of the Law of the Sea. Proceedings of the Law of the Sea Institute Eleventh Annual Conference, November 1977, (ed. Johnston) p.5 Ballinger, Cambridge Mass. 1977.
2. “Concepts of Marine Region and the New Law of the Sea”, Marine Policy Oct. 1979, p.255; see to similar effect B.M. Russell, “International Regions and the International System”, p.183 Falk and Mendlovitz, Regional Politics and the World Order, Freeman & Co., San Francisco, 1973.
3. The term is borrowed here from the title of the Regional Fisheries Commission of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (the United Nations) — the Western Central Atlantic Fisheries Commission.
4. The membership of OECS is: Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Kitts/Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. See further, below, p. 10.
5. See for example, A.S. Anderson, The Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976: Structure and Function of a Contiguous Economic Zone. (1977) 12 Tex. Int. L.J.