Fish as a source of food and fishing as a practice is as ancient and long in the history of human civilization as that of cultivation. The access to the ocean and the markets of the world has exemplified trade, transport, communication, research and greater military activities. The contemporary changes in the trans-economic structure of the ocean have accentuated the claim for a discretionary authority over the exclusive rights enjoyed as a coastal state and a creeping jurisdiction over the adjacent waters jeopardizing the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the other. As a consequence the claim over the immediately adjacent waters is the most generic and comprehensive assertion of authority. The coastal state exerts absolute authority over the internal waters and the territorial sea and the people and resources within. It is the interest in fisheries which is most explicitly the demand advanced by the coastal state in justification of the extension and authority over the internal waters and territorial sea. This particular interest in fisheries overshadows all the other interests. The maritime security paradigm seeks to align this hyperbole of conflicting interest of inclusive and exclusive claims.