Legal Foundation for Priority Usage of Ocean Space

The author predicts the legal/political effects of the Ocean Farm Project, the first true open sea mariculture project under development at the Naval Undersea Center in San Diego, Ca. He offers an approach to facilitate the projects utilization for the benefit of mankind. This includes an identification, analysis and evaluate of the physical and social impacts likely to result from the employment of such a technology including legal/political effects. This was done with a view toward recommending that a prior claim under international law be made before actual installation of the farm in the open ocean environment. The goal here would be the avoidance of international and domestic conflict constituting counter claims, such as those that have plagued the deep ocean mining industry.