date:Jun 08, 2015
utical miles), Exclusive Economic Zone (coast to 200 nautical miles), and Legal Continental Shelf (coast to a maximum of 350 nautical miles).
In an EEZ, a country has a right to use both the living and non-living resources in the waters, sea surface, and sub-surface. India has a wide EEZ of about 21.72 lakh sq km all along the 8,129 km long coastline.
Of these, an area of 16.31 sq km covers the deeper parts of the EEZ at depths in excess of 500m, and the rest 5.41 lakh sq km occurs in the sh