The Packwood-Magnuson Amendment provides that the Secretary 

 of State must immediately reduce by at least 50 percent the 

 allocation of fish permitted to be taken from the U.S. Exclusive 

 Economic Zone by any nation so certified. If remedial action 

 by the offending nation is not taken within one year, all 

 fish allocations must be withheld. At the time Japan was 

 certified, it did not have a U.S. fishery allocation. In 

 addition, under the Pelly Amendment, the President may direct 

 the Secretary of the Treasury to prohibit imports of some or 

 all fish products from a certified nation. Within 60 days of 

 being advised of a certification finding, the President must 

 advise Congress of any actions taken in response to the finding. 

 Thus, the Secretary also advised the President in his letter 

 that he was preparing recommendations for further steps that 

 might be taken within the 60-day period for reporting to 

 Congress. 



On 15 February 1988, the Secretary of the IWC circulated 

 the results of the IWC postal vote on the United Kingdom's 

 proposed Resolution calling upon Japan to refrain from issuing 

 a special permit for the revised whale research program. The 

 Resolution, which reguired approval by a simple majority of 

 Commissioners eligible to vote, was adopted by a vote of 19 

 in favor, 6 against, and 2 abstaining. 



On 6 April 1988, the President wrote to the Speaker of 

 the House and the President of the Senate to report on actions 

 that were being taken in response to the certification of 

 Japan. In his letter, the President noted that Japan had 

 requested the opportunity to take 3,000 metric tons of sea 

 snails and 5,000 metric tons of Pacific whiting from the U.S. 

 Exclusive Economic Zone. Under the Packwood-Magnuson Amendment, 

 the President noted that he was directing the Secretary of 

 State to withhold 100 percent of the fishery allocation for 

 those species, as well as any future fishery allocations, 

 until the Secretary of Commerce determines that the situation 

 has been corrected. The sanctions were the strongest possible 

 under the Packwood-Magnuson Amendment. In addition, the 

 President noted that he was asking the Secretary of Commerce, 

 in cooperation with the Secretary of State, to monitor Japanese 

 whaling practices, to report back to him by 1 December 1988 

 on further developments, and to work with other members of 

 the IWC to bring about a halt to all whaling that diminishes 

 the effectiveness of the IWC conservation program. In view 

 of these steps, the President decided not to impose sanctions 

 under the Pelly Amendment at that time. 



Decertification of the Soviet Union — As noted in previous 

 Annual Reports, during the 1984-1985 Antarctic whaling season, 

 the Soviet Union took more than 1,941 minke whales, causing 

 the overall IWC Southern Hemisphere minke whale quota to be 

 exceeded. Therefore, in April 1985, the Secretary of Commerce 



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