evidence: According to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Seas (UNCLOS) every sovereign state is entitled to an EEZ stretching some 200 miles to the edge of its maritime boundary. The country also has the right to use and dispose of resources contained therein, and prevent unauthorized access to their territory by other states. Aves Island sits some 140 miles West in the Caribbean Sea from the Northern coast of Dominica and 350 miles from the Venezuelan coast. [...] Dominica and other Caribbean countries however argue that Aves Island is really not an island under the UN convention and is simply a rock thus Venezuela is not entitled to 200 miles of EEZ. [...] Now more than ten years after Skerrit appearing to acquiesce to Venezuela there is renewed interest on the island of Dominica in the issue. Not least based on the recent published reports that as much as 20 percent of the worlds natural gas reserves are to be found in the sea around Aves Island.