Maritime resources are vital to the future development of Bangladesh. The sustainable management of Marine resources is necessary to achieve the goal of reaching high-income status by 2041. The Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman understood the significance of oceans in the national development. Under his leadership, Bangladesh enacted the first Territorial Waters and Maritime Zones Act in 1974 which demarcated the nation’s maritime zones and territorial limits. However, there has been a paradigm shift in the legal and political discourses of Maritime jurisprudence afterward. The most significant legal change occurred after the introduction of the United Nations Convention on the Laws of the Sea (UNCLOS) in 1982. UNCLOS presented a new set of provisions and legal axioms regarding the management, maintenance, and governance of the maritime domain and resources.....