This work focuses in different parts - with particular emphasis on China - on issues that arose during the 2004 States Parties meeting to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, held during the GA session; on integrated coastal zone management; on oil and gas development in the South China Sea environment; on regional fisheries in the Northeast Asian seas as well as in the South China Sea; on regional maritime enforcement; on global developments in marine science; on commercial shipping in the region; and on protection of underwater cultural heritage issues and regional cooperation. The book...