Translation of "étendues d'eaux intérieures " (French → English) :

internal waters [ interior waters | national waters | inland waters ]

Institute for Inland Water Management and Wastewater Treatment | RIZA [Abbr.]

inland waters | internal waters

inland voyage

coastal waters [ adjacent waters | inshore waters ]

Inland and coastal waters fishery workers

inland water vessel

inland waters

inland waters

internal coastal waters

They didn't have to, so they didn't. It was cheaper to do it the way they did, so that's how it got done.

In the Gulf of St. Lawrence; east of the locality of La Romaine (in latitude approximately 50°10′N and in longitude approximately 60°30′W); all this parcel of land including Île à la Brume, the islands, islets and rocks above water, and the water within a zone whose eastern, southern and western boundary is three kilometres from Île à la Brume and follows the arc of a circle with its centre at the centre of the said Île à la Brume whose northwestern and northern boundary is an irregular line three to 4.5 kilometres from the said Île à la Brume and which joins the ends of the said arc; the whole as shown on a plan prepared by the Real ...[+++]Estate Services of the Department of Public Works Canada, number MM-82-5390.

If we can extend our jurisdiction to include the area inside that white line — the entire Nose and Tail of the Grand Banks, we would expect to assert the same control over activities carried on within that extended jurisdiction with respect to soil and subsoil as we do now inside the 200-mile limit.

I would also want the delta and estuary areas to be protected and to be part of the common maritime policy; also, I would like the measures for combating sea pollution to be extended to internal waters that flow into seas and oceans and to the industrialized areas along the coasts as well.