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Nations arbitrarily claimed two hundred miles of ocean
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Tired of foreign fishing fleets stealing their fish, coastal states aggressively lobbied to extend their legal maritime borders. They successfully established Exclusive Economic Zones, magically transforming millions of square miles of open ocean into fiercely guarded private property without having to build a single physical fence.
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