[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3188 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3188

   To amend the Central Bering Sea Fisheries Enforcement Act of 1992.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 29, 1993

   Mr. Young of Alaska (for himself, Mr. Studds, Mr. Manton, and Mr. 
 Fields of Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
             the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Central Bering Sea Fisheries Enforcement Act of 1992.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Sea of Okhotsk Fisheries Enforcement 
Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. FISHING PROHIBITION.

    The Central Bering Sea Fisheries Enforcement Act of 1992, Public 
Law 102-582, (16 U.S.C. 1823 note), is amended--
            (1) in section 302, by inserting the words ``and the 
        Central Sea of Okhotsk'' after ``Central Bering Sea''; and
            (2) in section 306, by inserting the following new 
        definition as paragraph (7):
            ``(7) Sea of okhotsk.--The term `Central Sea of Okhotsk' 
        means the central Sea of Okhotsk area which is more than two 
        hundred nautical miles seaward of the baselines from which the 
        breadth of the territorial sea of the Russian Federation is 
        measured''.

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