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 PUBLIC LAW 102-582—NOV. 2, 1992 106 STAT. 4901 (8) The Senate, through Senate Resolution 396 of the One Hundredth Congress (approved on March 18, 1988), has called for a moratorium on nsning in the Central Bering Sea and the United States has taken concrete steps to implement such moratorium through international negotiations. (9) Despite the continued evidence of a decline in the fishery resources of the Bering Sea and the multiyear cooperative negotiations undertaken by the United States, the Russian Federation, Japan, and other concerned fishing nations, some nations refuse to agree to measures to reduce or eliminate unregulated fishing practices in the waters of the Bering Sea beyond the exclusive economic zones of the United States and the Riissian Federation. (10) In order to ensure that the global moratorium on large-scale driftnet fishing called for in United Nations General Assembly Resolution numbered 46-215 takes effect by December 31, 1992, and that imregulated fishing practices in the waters of the Central Bering Sea are reduced or eliminated, the United States should take the actions described in this Act and encourage other nations to take similar action. (b) PouCY. —It IS the stated policy of the United States to— (1) implement United Nations General Assembly Resolution numbered 46-215, approved unanimously on December 20, 1991, which calls for an immediate cessation to further expansion of l€urge-scale driftnet fishing, a 50 percent reduction in existing large-scale driftnet fishing effort by June 30, 1992, and a glob^ moratoriimi on the use of lar^e-scsde driftnets beyond the exclusive economic zone of any nation by December 31, 1992; (2) bring about a moratorium on fishing in the Central Bering Sea, or an international conservation and management agreement to which the United States and the Russian Federation are parties that regulates fishing in the Central Bering Sea; and (3) secure a permanent ban on the use of destructive fishing practices, and in particular large-scale driftnets, by persons or vessels fishing beyond the exclusive economic zone of any nation. TITLE I—HIGH SEAS LARGE-SCALE DRIFTNET FISHING SEC. 101. DENIAL OF PORT PRIVILEGES AND SANCTIONS FOR HIGH 16 USC 1826a. SEAS LARGE-SCALE DRIFTNET FISHING. (a) DENIAL OF PORT PRIVILEGES. — (1) PUBLICATION OF UST. —Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act and periodically thereafter, the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall publish a list of nations whose nationals or vessels conduct large-scale driftnet fishing beyond the exclusive economic zone of any nation. (2) DENIAL OF PORT PRIVILEGES.— The Secretary of the Treasury shall, in accordance with recognized principles of international law— (A) withhold or revoke the clearance required by section 4197 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (46 App. U.S.C. 91) for any large-scale driftnet fishing vessel that is documented under the laws of the United

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