[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1575 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1575

To establish a limitation on the vessels that may engage in harvesting 
  Atlantic mackerel or Atlantic herring within the exclusive economic 
                                 zone.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 8, 1997

  Mr. Saxton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To establish a limitation on the vessels that may engage in harvesting 
  Atlantic mackerel or Atlantic herring within the exclusive economic 
                                 zone.

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

SECTION 1. LIMITATION ON VESSELS THAT MAY ENGAGE IN ATLANTIC MACKEREL 
              AND ATLANTIC HERRING FISHING WITHIN EEZ.

    Notwithstanding any provision of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 
Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), a vessel of 
the United States may engage in harvesting Atlantic mackerel or 
Atlantic herring within the exclusive economic zone only if the 
vessel--
            (1) had, before April 1, 1997, a documented landing in a 
        port on the East Coast of the United States of at least one 
        pound of fish harvested under a fishing permit issued under 
        Federal or State law; or
            (2) is not more than 165 feet in overall length and has 
        engines that produce a total of not more than 3,000 horsepower.
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