The problem traces back to the 1994 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which set a country's exclusive economic zone as extending 200 nautical miles off its shores.
問題回溯至 1994 年，聯合國海洋公約制訂 200 浬專屬經濟區規則後，無可避免地造成相鄰各國家海域重疊問題。