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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. 

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] 

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. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘International Fisheries 

3 Agreement Clarification Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES AGREEMENTS. 

5 Section 304(e)(1) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

6 Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 

7 1854(e)(1)) is amended— 

8 (1) by inserting ‘‘(A)’’ after ‘‘(1)’’; and 

9 (2) by adding at the end thereof the following: 

10 ‘‘(B) The United States-Canada Transboundary 

11 Resource Sharing Understanding and other similar 

12 Understandings, and decisions made under those 

13 Understandings, shall be taken into account for pur14 poses of paragraph (4)(A)(i). Paragraph (4)(A)(ii) 

15 shall not apply to stocks covered by such Under16 standings. Notwithstanding section 302(h)(6) of this 

17 title, fishing level recommendations regarding re18 building in any given year for such stocks may be 

19 exceeded as long as the fishing mortality level allows 

20 for progress toward rebuilding affected fish stocks, 

21 and overfishing is ended immediately according to 

22 the procedures set forth in this subsection.’’. 

23 SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 

24 The amendments made by section 2 shall apply with 

25 respect to fishing years beginning after April 30, 2010. 


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•S 2856 RS 

1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘International Fisheries 

3 Agreement Clarification Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES AGREEMENTS. 

5 Section 304(e)(1) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

6 Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1854(e)(1)) 

7 is amended— 

8 (1) by inserting ‘‘(A)’’ after ‘‘(1)’’; and 

9 (2) by adding at the end thereof the following: 

10 ‘‘(B) The United States–Canada Transboundary 

11 Resource Sharing Understanding and other related 

12 Understandings, and decisions made under those Un13 derstandings, shall be taken into account for purposes 

14 of paragraph (4)(A)(i). Paragraph (4)(A)(ii) shall 

15 not apply to those portions of stocks covered by such 

16 Understandings. Notwithstanding section 302(h)(6) of 

17 this title, fishing level recommendations regarding re18 building in any given year for such stocks may be ex19 ceeded as long as the fishing mortality level allows for 

20 progress toward rebuilding affected fish stocks, and 

21 overfishing is ended immediately according to the 

22 procedures set forth in this subsection.’’. 

23 SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 

24 The amendments made by section 2 shall apply with 

25 respect to fishing years beginning after April 30, 2010. 


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Calendar No. 402 

111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 2856 

[Report No. 111–194] 

A BILL 

To allow the United States-Canada Transboundary 

Fishery Conservation and Management Act. of section 304(e)(4) of the Magnuson-Stevens ered an international agreement for the purposes Resource Sharing Understanding to be considMAY 24, 2009 

Reported with an amendment 


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