[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4369 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4369

   To allow the United States-Canada Transboundary Resource Sharing 
   Understanding to be considered an international agreement for the 
     purposes of section 304(e)(4) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 
                    Conservation and Management Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 16, 2009

 Mr. Frank of Massachusetts (for himself, Mr. Tierney, Mr. Jones, and 
Ms. Pingree of Maine) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                 to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To allow the United States-Canada Transboundary Resource Sharing 
   Understanding to be considered an international agreement for the 
     purposes of section 304(e)(4) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 
                    Conservation and Management Act.

    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 ``International Fisheries Agreement 
Clarification Act''.

SEC. 2. INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES AGREEMENTS.

    Section 304(e)(1) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1854(e)(1)) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(A)'' after ``(1)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end thereof the following:
            ``(B) The United States-Canada Transboundary Resource 
        Sharing Understanding and other related Understandings, and 
        decisions made under those Understandings, shall be taken into 
        account for purposes of paragraph (4)(A)(i). Paragraph 
        (4)(A)(ii) shall not apply to those portions of stocks covered 
        by such Understandings. Notwithstanding section 302(h)(6) of 
        this title, fishing level recommendations regarding rebuilding 
        in any given year for such stocks may be exceeded as long as 
        the fishing mortality level allows for progress toward 
        rebuilding affected fish stocks, and overfishing is ended 
        immediately according to the procedures set forth in this 
        subsection.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 2 shall apply with respect to 
fishing years beginning after April 30, 2010.
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