ABSTRACT
Competing Doctrint:s of International Law 181 economists and technicians to "maximize and generalize" the benefits from marine resources.ll Presumably, those most concerned with the fairest distribution of the wealth of the seas might go further, urging to each according to his needs: those who hunger have a greater right to the seas than those who are otherwise well off. Carried so far, of course, this last formulation might even be used to claim that the width of fishing zones should depend upon the measured needs of the claimants. By now, the gap between the traditional interpretation of freedom of the seas and the idea of generalized benefit has become a yawning gulf. Because, as a practical proposition, this generalized approach to human benefit has been applied mainly to the claim for wider seas for coastal states, it is considered in more detail below.
