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SEC. 202. INTERNATIONAL FISHERY AGREEMENTS 



(a) Negotiations. — The Secretary of State — 



(1) shall renegotiate treaties as provided for in 

 subsection (b) ; 



(2) shall negotiate governing international 

 fishery agreements described in section 201(c); 



(3) may negotiate boundary agreements as 

 provided for in subsection (d) ; 



(4) shall, upon the request of and in coopera- 

 tion with the Secrtary, initiate and conduct ne- 

 gotiations for the purpose of entering into inter- 

 national fishery agreements — 



(A) which allow fishing vessels of the United 

 States equitable access to fish over which for- 

 eign nations assert exclusive fishery manage- 

 ment authority, and 



(B) which provide for the conservation and 

 management of anadromous species and highly 

 migratory species; and 



(5) may enter into such other negotiations, 

 not prohibited by subsection (c) , as may be nec- 

 essary and appropriate to further the purposes, 

 policy, and provisions of this Act. 



(b) Treaty Renegotiation. — The Secretary of 

 State, in cooperation with the Secretary, shall initi- 

 ate, promptly af t«r the date of enactment of this ■ 

 Act, the renegotiation of any treaty which pertains 

 to fishing within the fishery conservation zone (or 

 within the area that will constitute such zone after 

 February 28, 1977) , or for anadromous species or 

 Continental Shelf fishery resources beyond such 

 zone or area, and which is in any manner incon- 

 sistent with the purposes, policy, or provisions of 

 this Act, in order to conform such treaty to such 

 purposes, policy, and provisions. It is the sense of 

 Congress that the United States shall withdraw 

 from any such treaty, in accordance with its pro- 

 visions, if such treaty is not so renegotiated within 

 a reasonable period of time after such date of 

 enactment. 



(c) International Fishery Agreements. — No 

 international fishery agreement (other than a 

 treaty) which pertains to foreign fishing within the 

 fishery conservation zone (or within the area that 

 will constitute such zone after February 28, 1977), 

 or for anadromous species or Continental Shelf 

 fishery resources beyond such zone or area — 



(1) which is in effect on June 1, 1976, may 

 thereafter be renewed, extended, or amended; 

 or 



(2) may be entered into after May 31, 1976; 

 by the United States unless it is in accordance 

 with the provisions of section 201(c). 



(d) Boundary Negotiations. — The Secretary of 

 State, in cooperation with the Secretary, may 

 initiate and conduct negotiations with any adjacent 

 or opposite foreign nation to establish the bound- 

 aries of the fishery conservation zone of the United 

 States in relation to any such nation. 



(e) Nonrecocnition. — It is the sense of the Con- 

 gress that the United States Government shall not 

 recognize the claim of any foreign nation to a 

 fishery conservation zone (or the equivalent) be- 



yond such nation's territorial sea, to the extent 

 that such sea is recognized by the United States, 

 if such nation — 



(1) fails to consider and take into account 

 traditional fishing activity of fishing vessels of 

 the United States; 



(2) fails to recognize and accept that highly 

 migratory species are to be managed by appli- 

 cable international fishery agreements, whether 

 or not such nation is a party to any such agree- 

 ment; or 



(3) imposes on fishing vessels of the United 

 States any conditions or restrictions which are 

 unrelated to fishery conservation and manage- 

 ment. 



SEC 203. congressional OVERSIGHT OF GOVERNING 

 INTERNATIONAL FISHERY AGREEMENTS. 



(a) In General. — No governing international 

 fishery agreement shall become effective with re- 

 spect to the United States before the close of the 

 first 60 calendar days of continuous session of the 

 Congress after the date on which the President 

 transmits to the House of Representatives and to 

 the Senate a document setting forth the text of 

 such governing international fishery agreement. 

 A copy of the document shall be delivered to each 

 House of Congress on the same day and shall be 

 delivered to the Clerk of the House of Represent- 

 atives, if the House is not in session, and to the 

 Secretary of the Senate, if the Senate is not in 

 session. 



(b) Referral to Committees. — Any document 

 described in subsection (a) shall be immediately 

 referred in the House of Representatives to the 

 Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, and 

 in the Senate to the Committees on Commerce and 

 Foreign Relations. 



(c) Computation of 60-Day Period. — For pur- 

 poses of subsection (a) — 



( 1 ) continuity of session is broken only by an 

 adjournment of Congress sine die; and 



(2) the days on which either House is not in 

 session because of an adjournment of more than 

 3 days to a day certain are excluded in the 

 computation of the 60-day period. 



(d) Congressional Procedures. — 



(1) Rules of the house of representatives 

 and senate. — The provisions of this section are 

 enacted by the Congress — 



(A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power 

 of the House of Representatives and the Sen- 

 ate, respectively, and they are deemed a part 

 of the rules of each House, respectively, but 

 applicable only with respect to the procedure to 

 be followed in that House in the case of fishery 

 agreement resolutions described in paragraph 

 (2) , and they supersede other rules only to the 

 extent that they are inconsistent therewith; 

 and 



(B) with full recognition of the constitu- 

 tional right of either House to change the rules 

 (so far as they relate to the procedure of that 



