An Act to amend the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Act of 1950 (Public Law 81-845)
PL 90-420 (S.1260), enacted 07/24/1968

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PUBLIC LAW 90-420-JULY 24, 1968 
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the applicability thereof to any state, agency, person or circumstance 
is held invalid, the constitutionality of the remainder of this compact 
and the applicability thereof to any state, agency, person or circum-
stance shall not be affected thereby, provided further that if this com-
pact shall be held contrary to the constitution of the United States, 
or in the case of a Province, to the British North America Act of 1867 
as amended, or of any party state, the compact shall remain in full 
force and effect as to the remaining states and in full force and effect 
as to the state affected as to all severable matters.'' 
SEC. 2. The consent herein granted does not extend to paragraph B 
of article II or to paragraphs J, K, and M of article VI of the c<mi-
pact, or to other provisions of article VI of the compact which purport 
to authorize recommendations to, or cooperation with, any foreign 
or international governments, political subdivisions, agencies or bodies. 
In carrying out its functions under this Act the Commission shall be 
solely a consultative and recommendatory agency which will cooperate 
with the agencies of the United States. It shall furnish to the Congress 
and to the President, or to any official designated by the President, dent^.^ ^" '^^^' 
copies of its reports submitted to the party states pursuant to para-
graph O of article IV of the compact. 
SEC. 3. Nothing contained in this Act or in the compact consented 
to hereby shall be construed to affect the jurisdiction, powers, or 
prerogatives of any department, agency, or officer of the United States 
Government or of the (xreat Lakes Basin Committee established under 
title II of the Water Resources Planning Act, or of any international 
commission or agency over or in the Great Lakes Basin or any portion 
thereof, nor shall anything contained herein be construed to establish 
an international agency or to limit or affect in any way the exercise 
of the treatymaking power or any other power or right of the Ignited 
States. 
SEC. 4. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is expressly 
reserved. 
Approved July 24, 1968. 
Report to Con-
79 Stat. 246. 
42 u s e 1962b-
1962b-6. 
Public Law 90-420 
AN ACT 
July 24, 1968 
To ameiul the Xorthwest Atlantic Fisheries Act of 11)50 (rublic Law 81-84r»). 
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Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That the Nortlnvest 
Atlantic Fisheries Act of 1950 (64 Stat. 1067; 16 U.S.C. 981-991) is 
amended as follows: 
(a) By changing the period in section 2(a) of the Act to a comma 
and adding the following words: "and amendments including the 1961 
declaration of understanding and the 1963 protocol, as well as the 
convention signed at Washington under date of February 8, 1949." 
(b) By inserting the words "'or mamniar- after the word "iish" in 
section 2(g). 
(c) By adding a new subsection (h) in section 2 of the Act to read 
as follows: 
" (h) Fish : The word 'tisli" means any species of fish, mollusks, crus-
taceans, including lobsters, and all forms of marine animal life cov-
ered by the convention." 
(d) By deleting the words ''outside of the United States"' in section 
4(b). 
Approved July 24, 1968. 
Northwest At-
lantic Fisheries 
Act of 1950, 
amendment. 
Definitions. 
16 
use 
981. 
14 
UST 924; 
17 
UST 
635. 
1 
UST 
477. 
16 
use 983.