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• Add a Magnuson Act national standard stating that, 

 "Conservation and management measures shall promote safety of life 

 and property at sea." 



• Fishing industry support for amending the Magnuson Act to 

 allow the Secretary of Commerce to assess fishing fees is 

 conditional. Fishing fees-- 



--must be spent on federal fishery programs in the region in 

 which the fees were collected, 



— can be used to administer limited access programs, 



--shall supplement, not replace, existing funding levels. 



Also, there should be a sunset date for any provision allowing 

 for the collection of fees to ensure a full opportunity to review 

 the effects of a fee program, and Congress should require annual 

 reports from the Commerce Department to ensure that fees are being 

 spent for the purposes set out above. 



• Amend Magnuson Act National Standard No. 5 to state that 

 management measures should, "include the avoidance, or reduction 

 and elimination, of excess fishing capacity", and should "minimize 

 waste, including the bycatch of non- target species and discards of 

 target species." 



• Congress should direct the Secretary of Commerce to 

 establish an effective vessel incentive program (VIP) for purposes 

 of managing and reducing bycatch in the North Pacific fisheries, 

 subject to overall bycatch limits. A VIP program should be 

 required to be in place within six months of the date of enactment 

 of the reauthorization bill. 



• The Act should include a provision specifying the percentage 

 or dollar value (by species) of federal resources transferred to 

 the Community Development Quota (CDQ) program and state the 

 duration of the program. 



3. Composition of the Regional Fishery Management Councils. 



Congress has often amended the Magnuson Act to address 

 concerns that the Act has not achieved its goal of attaining "a 

 fair and balanced apportionment" of participants in the fisheries 

 on the councils. With respect to achieving balanced representation 

 on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, the task is 

 complicated by a provision in the Act limiting Washington State 

 residents to two of the seven seats on the North Pacific Council 

 reserved for industry participants and others knowledgeable about 

 fisheries. 



