[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5025 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5025

     To amend the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention 
   Implementation Act to limit the imposition of penalties against a 
person fishing on a United States flag fishing vessel in certain areas 
of the Pacific Ocean based on a report by an observer on such a vessel.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 14, 2018

Mrs. Radewagen introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention 
   Implementation Act to limit the imposition of penalties against a 
person fishing on a United States flag fishing vessel in certain areas 
of the Pacific Ocean based on a report by an observer on such a vessel.

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

SECTION 1. LIMITATION ON ENFORCEMENT BASED ON OBSERVER REPORTS.

    Section 507 of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention 
Implementation Act (16 U.S.C. 6906) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(c) Limitation on Enforcement Based on Observer Reports.--No 
person fishing on a United States flag fishing vessel in the Convention 
Area shall be subject to any penalty under this Act or any other law or 
regulation applicable to such vessels based on a report by an observer 
on such a vessel, unless--
            ``(1) the observer report is provided to the captain and 
        the owner of the vessel within 60 days after the end of the 
        fishing trip; and
            ``(2) any enforcement action based on such report is 
        brought within one year after the end of the fishing trip.''.
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