[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2856 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2856

   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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            December 9, 2009

  Ms. Snowe (for herself and Mr. Kirk) introduced the following bill; 
    which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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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 similar 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 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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