[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1475 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1475

 To provide an antitrust exemption for persons engaged in the fishing 
                   industry, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 13, 1995

 Mr. Stevens (for himself and Mr. Murkowski) introduced the following 
    bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide an antitrust exemption for persons engaged in the fishing 
                   industry, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Fishing Industry 
Bargaining Act''.
    (b) Amendment to Act of 1934.--The Act approved June 25, 1934, 
authorizing associations of producers of aquatic products (15 U.S.C. 
1521 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 2 the following new 
section:
    ``Sec. 3. Persons engaged in the fishing industry as fishermen, 
including fishermen acting through associations allowed under section 
1, may collectively agree with fish processors, including fish 
processors acting through associations of processors, on (1) the price 
paid to the fishermen for aquatic products, and (2) the minimum price 
that fish processors will accept for the sale of processed aquatic 
products. Nothing in this section shall be construed to allow fish 
processors to agree among themselves on the price paid to fishermen or 
the minimum price that fish processors will accept for sale of 
processed aquatic products if fishermen did not participate in the 
making of the agreement and are not a party to the agreement.
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