Limits at Sea
Limits at Sea
State Claims, Territorial Consolidation, and Boundary Disputes, 1880s–1950s
This chapter examines disputes over the turtle fishery across several circum-Caribbean locales: the southern cays of Cuba, the Miskito Cays of Nicaragua, and the Colombian archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina. It shows how these conflicts over Caymanian access to turtle fishing grounds in national waters reveal the messy multilateral process of maritime boundary making, in which contestations among multiple national and imperial state actors as well as foreign and local turtlemen helped to consolidate a once porous but contested space in the circum-Caribbean. The chapter argues that legislation to regulate the turtle fishery eventually led to the closing of the turtle commons, which had been a robust transnational maritime zone.
Keywords: Turtle Fishery, Maritime Boundary, The Cayman Islands, Southern Cays Cuba, Miskito Cays Nicaragua, Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia, Santa Catalina, Colombia
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