ABSTRACT
Changes to the law of salvage to provide remuneration for environmental services, understandably driven by the values attached to environmental protection, are at odds with the legal theoretical underpinnings of salvage. Salvage law developed on the basis of services rendered to property in danger at sea in furtherance of policies relating to the encouragement of shipping and trade at sea and the notion that the recipients of benefits. The 1989 Salvage Convention, while ostensibly directed at environmental protection outcomes, has maintained the traditional view of salvage operations with remuneration for environmental services in the form of special compensation. A legal regime for the remuneration of salvor's environmental services should be predicated on a view of salvage operations as a functional component in a network of measures, public and private, directed at environmental protection.
