NPFC has competence over the waters of the high seas area of the North Pacific Ocean, excluding the high seas areas of the Bering Sea and other high seas areas that are surrounded by the exclusive economic zone of a single State. The area of application is bounded to the south by a continuous line beginning at the seaward limit of waters under the jurisdiction of the United States of America around the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands at twenty (20) degrees North latitude, then proceeding East and connecting the following coordinates: 20??00'00???N, 180??00'00"E/W; 10??00'00"N, 180??00'00"E/W; 10??00'00"N, 140??00'00"W; 20??00'00"N, 140??00'00"W; and thence East to the seaward limit of waters under the fisheries jurisdiction of Mexico.