ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a recap of the findings in earlier chapters and makes suggestions regarding the proper legal regulation of environmental services in the context of property salvage operations. These suggestions are premised upon the reality of the unavoidable broader environmental protection context to salvage operations, the need for legal certainty and the avoidance of unnecessary fragmentation in law. It argues that the remuneration of salvors for environmental services in property salvage operations is best dealt with outside of the salvage law framework, by means of a direct contractual relationship between coastal States and the providers of environmental services.
