(2) CRIMINAL PENALTIES.—A person violating
subsection (f)(5), (6), (7), or (9) is guilty of an offense
punishable under subsections (a)(1) and (b) of section
309 of the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Man-
agement Act (16 U.S.C. 1859).
(h) CIVIL FORFEITURES.—
(1) FORFEITURE.—A vessel (including its gear,
equipment, appurtenances, stores, and cargo) used in
connection with an act unlawful under subsection (f),
and any fish (or the fair market value thereof) taken
or retained, in any manner, in connection with, or
the result of, the commission of an act prohibited
under subsection (f), shall be subject to forfeiture to
the United States as provided in section 310 of the
Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act
(16 U.S.C. 1860).
(2) DISPOSAL OF FISH.—Any fish seized pursu-
ant to this Act may be disposed of under an order of
a court of competent jurisdiction or, if perishable, in
a manner provided by regulation prescribed by the
Secretary.
(i) ENFORCEMENT.—A moratorium declared under
subsection (c) shall be enforced by the Secretaries and the
Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is
operating, as provided in section 311 of the Magnuson Fish-
ery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1861 et
seq.). The Secretaries may, by agreement, on a reimbursable
basis or otherwise, use the personnel, services, equipment
(including aircraft and vessels), and facilities of any other
Federal department or agency and of any agency of a State
in carrying out that enforcement.
SEC. 6. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.
The Secretaries may provide financial assistance to the
Commission and to the States to carry out their respective
responsibilities under this Act, including—
(1) the preparation, implementation, and en-
forcement of interstate fishery management plans;
and
(2) State activities that are specifically required
in interstate fishery management plans.
SEC. 7. DEFINITIONS.
For the purposes of this Act, the term—
(1) ‘‘coastal fishery resource’’ means any species
of fish that move among, or are broadly distributed
across—
(A) waters under the jurisdiction of 2 or
more States that border the Atlantic Ocean; or
(B) waters under the jurisdiction of any
State that borders the Atlantic Ocean and waters
of the exclusive economic zone;
(2) ‘‘Commission’’ means the Atlantic States Ma-
rine Fisheries Commission constituted under the
interstate compact consented to and approved by the
Congress in the Acts of May 4, 1942 (56 Stat. 267),
and August 19, 1950 (64 Stat. 467);
(3) ‘‘Councils’’ means the Regional Fishery Man-
agement Councils established under section 302 of the
Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act
(16 U.S.C. 1852) with jurisdiction over fisheries in
the Atlantic Ocean;
(4) ‘‘exclusive economic zone’’ means that por-
tion in the Atlantic Ocean of the exclusive economic
zone established by Presidential Proclamation Num-
ber 5030, dated March 10, 1983;
(5) ‘‘Federal Fishery management plan’’ means
a fishery management plan prepared by a Council or
the Secretary under the Magnuson Fishery Conserva-
tion and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.);
(6) ‘‘fish’’ means finfish, mollusks, crustaceans,
and all other forms of marine animal life other than
marine mammals and birds;
(7) ‘‘fishery’’ has the meaning given that term in
section 3 of the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and
Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1802);
(8) ‘‘fishing’’ has the meaning given that term in
section 3 of the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and
Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1802);
(9) ‘‘implement and enforce’’ means the enact-
ment or adoption of laws, regulations, or rules as re-
quired to—
(A) comply with the provisions of an inter-
state fishery management plan; and
(B) assure compliance with such laws, regu-
lations, or rules by persons participating in a
fishery that is subject to such plans;
(10) ‘‘interstate fishery management plan’’
means—
(A) a fishery management plan or amend-
ment adopted by the Commission under section
3; or
(B) a fishery management plan or amend-
ment for managing a coastal fishery resource
adopted by the Commission before the date of the
enactment of this Act;
(11) ‘‘Secretaries’’ means the Secretary of Com-
merce and the Secretary of the Interior;
(12) ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of Com-
merce; and
(13) ‘‘State’’ means each of Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mary-
land, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, the District of Columbia, and the
Potomac River Fisheries Commission.
SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec-
retaries for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of
this Act $2,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1994, 1995,
and 1996.