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

                                                       Calendar No. 402
111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2856

                          [Report No. 111-194]

   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

                              May 24, 2010

             Reported by Mr. Rockefeller, with an amendment
 [Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in 
                                italic]

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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,

<DELETED>SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    This Act may be cited as the ``International Fisheries 
Agreement Clarification Act''.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 2. INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES AGREEMENTS.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Section 304(e)(1) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 
Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1854(e)(1)) is amended--
</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) by inserting ``(A)'' after ``(1)''; 
        and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) by adding at the end thereof the 
        following:</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(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.''.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.</DELETED>

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

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.
                                                       Calendar No. 402

111th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                S. 2856

                          [Report No. 111-194]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 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.

_______________________________________________________________________

                              May 24, 2009

                       Reported with an amendment