Nov.16,1994, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea came into force, all countries started to pay more attention to the development and management of marine resources. According to the law, all countries tried to extend 12 nautical miles to the adjacent coastal sea, also had they extended 200 sea miles to the exclusive economic zone,which aimed to effectively develop and utilize the fishery and mineral resources in exclusive economic zone. With the publishing of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in the provisions relating to the delimitation of the exclusive economic zone, the overlapping areas between Taiwan and Japan were more difficult to reach a consensus. The Taiwan and Japan Piscatorial Power dispute was long-standing, which has greatly affected the fishermen’s livelihood. Taiwan would negotiate with Japan about fishery agreement eagerly, but Japan had no willingness to share fishing grounds.In August 1996, Taiwan-Japan fishery took first step to the negotiation, but 16 times of negotiations came to nothing. On Apr.10,2013, Taiwan and Japan held its 17th fisheries negotiation and successfully signed the "Taiwan-Japan fishery agreement" that Japan agreed with the "Taiwan’s Latitude", which replaced the former "middle line" and "provisional enforcement line". This is the most significant breakthrough in 17-year negotiation between Taiwan-Japan bilateral fisheries. It also means that the former situation that Taiwan fishermen were often subjected to detention or expulsion by the Japanese around the Diaoyu Islands will have a substantial improvement.After 17-year negotiations, Taiwan and Japan piscatorial power dispute finally has some results with complex history and reality factors. The questions mentioned are divided into four chapters in this paper. Firstly, I attempt to analyze the delimitation of the exclusive economic zone. Secondly, the 16 times of Taiwan-Japan bilateral negotiations are sorted out and the reasons for the failed negotiations are analyzed. Thirdly, the paper focuses on the background and historical factors of the agreement under the background of the current context of separation and the increasingly fierce in Diaoyu Islands that take mainland China as the third side, how would Taiwan and Japan play the game. Finally, the paper analyzes the complex impact of the "Taiwan-Japan Fishery Agreement" for the future of cross-strait relations and for Taiwan’s political environment. |