[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3812 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3812

         To prohibit trade in billfish and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 21, 2010

Mr. Vitter (for himself and Mr. McCain) 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 prohibit trade in billfish 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.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Billfish Conservation Act of 2010''.

SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY.

    Congress enacts this Act pursuant to article I, section 8, clause 3 
of the United States Constitution.

SEC. 3. BILLFISH DEFINED.

    In this Act, the term ``billfish''--
            (1) means any fish of the species--
                    (A) Istiompax indica (black marlin);
                    (B) Istiophorus platypterus (sailfish);
                    (C) Kajikia albida (white marlin);
                    (D) Kajikia audax (striped marlin);
                    (E) Makaira nigricans (blue marlin);
                    (F) Tetrapturus angustirostris (shortbill 
                spearfish);
                    (G) Tetrapturus belone (Mediterranean spearfish);
                    (H) Tetrapturus georgii (roundscale spearfish); and
                    (I) Tetrapturus pfluegeri (longbill spearfish); and
            (2) does not include the species Xiphias gladius 
        (swordfish).

SEC. 4. PROHIBITION ON TRADE IN BILLFISH.

    (a) Prohibition.--No person shall offer for sale, sell, import, or 
export, or have custody, control, or possession of for purposes of 
offering for sale, selling, importing, or exporting, billfish or 
products containing billfish.
    (b) Penalty.--A violation of the prohibition in subsection (a) 
shall be subject to penalty under section 308 of the Magnuson-Stevens 
Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1858) and such a 
violation shall be treated under such section 308 as an act prohibited 
by section 307 of that Act (16 U.S.C. 1857).
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