Maritime:
Oceans don’t ask who.
Laws do.
We’re still deciding how to answer.
AbeySea: Making stories seen, from the gap between
Stories, treaties and ratification
Neither ocean or law, ask everyone the same question.
AbeySea explores,
who are we being to what the ocean is; the sea as its actually lived
What is the state of nature at sea?
Fishers live through Flag states, from liberum to clausum in the EEZ .
CPO’s genuine sincerity to improve worker conditions and entirely rational commercial flag-choice practices are compatible options.
Ambiguity in technical rules bread danger but eradicating it isn’t the same test for moral legitimacy.
Fishing in a shared inheritance of humanity, the law speaks only to state; a fisher in the gap sinks under the possible weight of negotiations for all.
Repatriation guaranteed; both a rule satisfied and a member not protected, test abandonment risk markers and financial security.
A seabed mining crew could serve mankind yet, their wage and labour output currently governed correctly, twice.
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Stories | The Log
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The seabed: once for mankind twice for the crew.
Seafarer repatriates through shell-ownership, older tonnage and registry. From financial to abandonment risk the mast swings.
Subsistence in the EEZ, a fisher sails the gap between state and their life at sea.
the common heritage pool and surveys earning territory.
one desk, two acts. a registration filing and people improvements at the margin.
The sea is open, the sea is closed. Clausum taking over the watch from four centuries of Liberum.
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