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Article DC 



Nothing in this compact shall be construed to 

 limit or add to the powers or the proprietary 

 Interest of any signatory state or to repeal or 

 prevent the enactment of any legislation or the 

 enforcement of any requirement by a signatory 

 state imposing additional conditions and restric- 

 tions to conserve its fisheries. 



Article X 



It is agreed that any two or more states party 

 hereto may further amend this compact by acts of 

 their respective legislatures subject to approval of 

 Congress as provided in Article I Section 10 of the 

 Constitution of the United States, to designate the 

 Gulf States Manne Fisheries Corrmiisslon as a 

 joint regulating authority for the joint regulation 

 of specific fisheries affecting only such states as 

 shall so compact, and at their joint expense. The 

 representatives of such states shall constitute a 

 separate section of the Gulf States Marine Fisheries 

 Commission for the exercise of the additional 

 powers so granted but the creation of such section 

 shall not be deemed to deprive the states so com- 

 pacting of any of their privileges or powers in the 

 Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission as con- 

 stituted under the other articles of this compact. 



Article XI 



Continued absence of representation or of any 

 representative on the commission from any state 

 party hereto shall be brought to the attention of 

 the governor thereof. 



Article XII 

 The operating expenses of the Gulf States Ma- 



rine Fisheries Commission shall be borne by the 

 states party hereto. Such initial appropriations as 

 are set forth below shaU be Vnade available yearly 

 imtil modified as hereinafter provided : 



Florida $3,500.00 



Alabama 1,000.00 



Mississippi 1,000.00 



Iioulslana 5,000.00 



Texas 2.500.00 



Total 13,000.00 



The proration and total cost per annum of thir- 

 teen thousand ($13,000.00) dollars, above men- 

 tioned, is estimative only, for initial operations, and 

 may be changed when found necessary by the com- 

 mission and approved by the legislatures of the 

 respective states. Each state party hereto agrees to 

 provide in the manner most acceptable to it, the 

 travel costs and necessary expenses of its commis- 

 sioners and other representatives to and from meet- 

 ings of the commission or its duly constituted sec- 

 tions or committees. 



.. Article xm 



This compact shall continue in force and remain 

 binding upon each compacting state imtil re- 

 nounced by act of the legislature of such state, in 

 such form as it may choose; provided that such 

 renunciation shall not become effective until six 

 months after the effective date of the action taken 

 by the legislature. Notice of such renunciation shall 

 be given to the other .<:totes party thereto by the 

 secretoi-y of state of tlie compacting state so re- 

 nouncing upon passage of the act. 



Approved May 19, 1949. 



4. Pacific Marine Fisheries Compact 

 P.L. 80-232, P.L. 87-766, P.L. 91-315 



P.L. 80-232, Act of July 2i, 1947, Ch. 316, 

 61 Siat. 419 



AN ACT 



Oian,tlng the consent and approval of Congress to an 

 Interstate compact relating to Uie better utilization 

 of the fisheries (marine, shell, and an.idromous) of the 

 PaclOc coast and crcutlnc tbe PiiclUc Marine Fisheries 

 Coninil.sslon. 



Dc it enacted by ilic Scicitc and House of Rcp- 

 rcscntalivcs of tiu- United Stal/'s of America in 

 Congress asscnblcd. That the (.:on.scnt and .apijroval 

 of Congress is hereby given to an interstate com- 

 pact relating to the better utilization of the fish- 

 eries (marine, shell, and anadromous) of the Pa- 

 cific coast, creating the Pacific Marine Fisheries 

 Commission, and now ratified by the States of 

 California, Oregon, and Washington. The compact 

 reads as follows: 



"PACIFIC MARINE FISHERIES COMPACT 



••The contracting states do hereby agree as fol- 

 lows: 



"Article I 



'The purposes of this compact are and shall be to 

 promote the better utilization of fisheries, marine, 

 shell and anadromous, which are of mutual con- 

 cern, and to develop a joint program of protection 

 and prevent of physical waste of such fisheries in 

 all of those areas of the Pacific ocean over which 

 the states of California, Oregon and Washington 

 jointly or separately now have or may hereafter ac- 

 quire jurisdiction. 



"Nothing herein contained shall be construed so 

 as to authorize the aforesaid states or any of them 

 to limit tlie production of fish or fish products for 

 the .purpose of establishing or fixing the prices 

 thereoi or creating and perpetuating a monopoly. 



"Article n 



"This agreement shall become operative immedi- 

 ately as to those states executive it whenever two 

 or more of the states of California, Oregon and 

 Washington have executed it in the form that is 

 in accordance with the laws of the executing state 

 and the congress has given its consent. 



