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Union Calendar No. 474 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2706 
[Report No. 112–656] 
To prohibit the sale of billfish. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 29, 2011 
Mr. MILLER of Florida (for himself, Mr. ROSS of Arkansas, Mr. SHULER, Mr. 
LATTA, Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina, Mr. WITTMAN, Mr. BOREN, Mr. 
MICHAUD, and Mr. BONNER) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Natural Resources 
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 
Additional sponsors: Mr. ALEXANDER, Mr. COBLE, Mr. BUCHANAN, Mr. ROO-
NEY, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. DIAZ-BALART, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. 
HEINRICH, Mr. HARRIS, Mr. PIERLUISI, Mr. FLORES, Mr. YOUNG of 
Alaska, Mr. SOUTHERLAND, Mr. LANDRY, Mr. PALAZZO, Mr. RIVERA, 
and Mr. KISSELL 
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on July 29, 2011] 
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A BILL 
To prohibit the sale of billfish. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Billfish Conservation 
Act of 2012’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The United States carefully regulates its do-
mestic fisheries for billfish and participates in inter-
national fishery management bodies in the Atlantic 
and Pacific. 
(2) Global billfish populations have declined sig-
nificantly, however, because of overfishing primarily 
through retention of bycatch by non-United States 
commercial fishing fleets. 
(3) Ending the importation of foreign-caught 
billfish for sale in the United States aligns with U.S. 
management measures of billfish and protects the sig-
nificant economic benefits to the U.S. economy of rec-
reational fishing and marine commerce and the tradi-
tional cultural fisheries. 
SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY. 
The Congress enacts this Act pursuant to clause 3 of 
section 8 of article I of the Constitution. 
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(B) Kajikia audax (striped marlin); 
(C) Istiompax indica (black marlin); 
(D) Istiophorus platypterus (sailfish); 
(E) Tetrapturus angustirostris (shortbill 
spearfish); 
(F) Kajikia albida (white marlin); 
(G) Tetrapturus georgii (roundscale spear-
fish); 
(H) Tetrapturus belone (Mediterranean 
spearfish); and 
(I) Tetrapturus pfluegeri (longbill spear-
fish); and 
(2) does not include the species Xiphias gladius 
(swordfish). 
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Union Calendar No. 474 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2706 
[Report No. 112–656] 
A BILL 
To prohibit the sale of billfish. 
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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