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of Commerce or his designee. 



(21) The term "State" means each of the several 

 States, the District of Columbia, the Common- 

 wealth of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Vir- 

 gin Islands, Guam, and any other Commonwealth, 

 territory, or possession of the United States. 



(22) The term "stock of fish" means a species, 

 subspecies, geographical grouping, or other cate- 

 gory of fish capable of management as a unit. 



(23) The term "treaty" means any international 

 fishery agreement which is a treaty within the 

 meaning of section 2 of article II of the Constitu- 

 tion. 



(24) The term "United States", when used in a 

 geographical context, means all the States thereof. 



(25) The term "vessel of the United States" 

 means any vessel documented xuider the laws of 

 the United States or registered «nder the laws of 

 any State. 



TITLE I— FISHERY MANAGEMENT AUTHOR- 

 ITY OF THE UNITED STATES 



SEC. 101. FISHERY CONSERVATION ZONE. 



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 cotermi- 

 nous with the seaward boundary of each of the 

 coastal States, and the outer boimdary 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. 



SEC. 102. EXCLUSIVE FISHERY MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY 



The United States shall exercise exclusive fish- 

 ery management authority, in the manner pro- 

 vided for in this Act, over the following: 



(1) All fish within the fishery conservation 

 zone. 



(2) All anadromous species throughout the 

 migratory range of each such species beyond the 

 fishery conservation zone; except that such 

 management authority shall not extend to such 

 species during the time they are found within 

 any foreign nation's territorial sea or fishery con- 

 servation zone (or the equivalent), to the extent 

 that such sea or zone is recognized by the United 

 States. 



(3) All Continental Shelf fishery resources be- 

 yond the fishery conservation zone. 



SEC. 103. HIGHLY MIGRATORY SPECIES. 



The exclusive fishery management authority of 

 the United States shall not include, nor shall it be 

 construed to extend to, highly migratory species of 

 ash. 



SEC. 104. EFFECTIVE DATE. 



This title shall take effect March 1. 1977. 



TITLE n— FOREIGN FISHING AND INTERNA- 

 TIONAL FISHERY AGREEMENTS 



SEC 201. FOREIGN FISHING. 



(a) In General. — After February 28, 1977, no 

 foreign fishing is authorized within the fishery 



conservation zone, or for anadromous species or 

 Continental Shelf fishery resources beyond the 

 fishery conservation zone, unless such foreign 

 fishing — 



(1) is authorized under subsection (b) or (c) ; 



(2) is not prohibited by subsection (f ) ; and 



(3) is conducted under, and in accordance 

 with, a valid and applicable permit issued pur- 

 suant to section 204. 



(b) Existing International Fishery Agree- 

 ments. — Foreign fishing described in subsection 

 (a) may be conducted pursuant to an interna- 

 tional fishery agreement (subject to the provisions 

 of section 202 (b) or (c) ) , if such agreement — 



(1) was in effect on the date of enactment of 

 this Act: and 



(2) has not expired, been renegotiated, or 

 otherwise ceased to be of force and effect with 

 respect to the United States. 



(c) Governing International Fishery Agree- 

 ments. — Foreign fishing described in subsection 

 (a) may be conducted pursuant to an international 

 fishery agreement (other than a treaty) which 

 meets the requirements of this subsection if such 

 agreement becomes effective after application of 

 section 203. Any such international fishery agree- 

 ment shall hereafter in this Act be referred to as a 

 "governing international fishery agreement". Each 

 governing international fishery agreement shall 

 acknowledge the exclusive fishery management 

 authority of the United States, as set forth in this 

 Act. It is the sense of the Congress that each such 

 agreement shall include a binding commitment, on 

 the part of such foreign nation and its fishing ves- 

 sels, to comply with the following terms and 

 conditions: 



(1) The foreign nation, and the owner or op- 

 erator of any fishing vessel fishing pursuant to 

 such agreement, will abide by all regulations 

 promulgated by the Secretary pursuant to this 

 Act, including any regulations promulgated to 

 implement any applicable fishery management 

 plan or any preliminary fishery management 

 plan. 



(2) The foreign nation, and the owner or oper- 

 ator of any fishing vessel fishing pursuant to such 

 agreement, will abide by the requirement that — 



(A) any officer authorized to enforce the 

 provisions of this Act (as provided for in sec- 

 tion 311) be permitted — 



(i) to board, and search or inspect, any 

 such vessel at any time, 



(ii) to make arrests and seizures provided 

 for in section 311(b) whenever such ofBcer 

 has reasonable cause to believe, as a result 

 of such a search or inspection, that any such 

 vessel or any person has committed an act 

 prohibited by section 307, and 



(iii) to examine and make notations on 

 the permit pursuant to section 204 for such 

 vessel ; 



(B) the permit issued for any such vessel 

 pursuant to section 204 be prominently dis- 

 played in the wheelhouse of such vessel ; 



