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16 U.S. Code § 1811 - United States sovereign rights to fish and fishery management authority | LII / Legal Information Institute
U.S. Code › Title 16 › Chapter 38 › Subchapter II › § 1811 16 U.S. Code § 1811 - United States sovereign rights to fish and fishery management authority
In the exclusive economic zone Except as provided in section 1812 of this title, the United States claims, and will exercise in the manner provided for in this chapter, sovereign rights and exclusive fishery management authority over all fish, and all Continental Shelf fishery resources, within the exclusive economic zone.
Beyond the exclusive economic zone The United States claims, and will exercise in the manner provided for in this chapter, exclusive fishery management authority over the following:
All anadromous species throughout the migratory range of each such species beyond the exclusive economic zone; except that that management authority does not extend to any such species during the time they are found within any waters of a foreign nation.
All Continental Shelf fishery resources beyond the exclusive economic zone.
(Pub. L. 94–265, title I, § 101,Apr. 13, 1976, 90 Stat. 336; Pub. L. 99–659, title I, § 101(b),Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3706; Pub. L. 101–627, title I, § 102(b),Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4438; Pub. L. 102–251, title III, § 301(c),Mar. 9, 1992, 106 Stat. 62.)
Pub. L. 102–251, title III, §§ 301(c), 308,Mar. 9, 1992, 106 Stat. 62, 66, provided that, effective on the date on which the Agreement between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Maritime Boundary, signed June 1, 1990, enters into force for the United States, with authority to prescribe implementing regulations effective Mar. 9, 1992, but with no such regulation to be effective until the date on which the Agreement enters into force for the United States, subsection (a) is amended by inserting “and special areas” before the period at the end and subsection (b) is amended by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new paragraph:
1990—Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 101–627substituted “any waters of a foreign nation” for “any foreign nation’s territorial sea or exclusive economic zone (or the equivalent), to the extent that that sea or zone is recognized by the United States”.
1986—Pub. L. 99–659amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section read as follows: “There is established a zone contiguous to the territorial sea of the United States to be known as the fishery conservation zone. The inner boundary of the fishery conservation zone is a line coterminous with the seaward boundary of each of the coastal States, and the outer boundary of such zone is a line drawn in such a manner that each point on it is 200 nautical miles from the baseline from which the territorial sea is measured.”