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 PUBLIC LAW 104-297—OCT. 11, 1996 110 STAT. 3597 Tennination date. (D) closure of areas or pot limitations to meet the harvest requirements arising under the jurisdiction of United States v. Washington, subproceeding 89-3. (3) With respect to the States of Washington, Oregon, and California— (A) any State law limiting entry to a fishery subject to regulation under this subsection may not be enforced against a vessel that is operating in the exclusive economic zone off that State and is not registered under the law of that State, if the vessel is otherwise legally fishing in the exclusive economic zone, except that State laws regulating landings may be enforced; and (B) no vessel may harvest or process fish which is subject to regulation under this subsection unless under an appropriate State permit or pursueint to a Federal court order, (4) The authority provided under this subsection to regulate the Dungeness crab fishery shall termLiate on October 1, 1999, or when a fishery management plsm is implemented under the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) for such fishery, whichever date is earlier. (5) Nothing in this subsection shall reduce the authority of any State, as such authority existed on July 1, 1996, to regulate fishing, fish processing, or landing offish. (6)(A) It is the sense of Congress that the Pacific Fishery Management Council, at the earliest practicable date, should develop and submit to the Secretary fishery meinagement plans for shellfish fisheries conducted in the geographic area of authority of the Council, especially Dungeness crab, which are not subject to a fishery management plan on the date of enactment of this Act. (B) Not later than December 1, 1997, the Pacific Fishery Reports Management Coiuicil shall provide a report to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives describing the progress in developing the fishery management plans referred to in subparagraph (A) and any impediments to such progress. SEC. 113. PROHTOITED ACTS. (a) Section 307(l)(J)(i) (16 U.S.C. 1857(l)(J)(i)) is amended— (1) by striking "plan," and inserting "plan"; and (2) by inserting before the semicolon the following: ", or in the absence of any such plan, is smaller than the minimum possession size in effect at the time under a coastal fishery management plan for American lobster adopted by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission under the Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act (16 U.S.C. 5101 et seq.r. (b) Section 307(1)(K) (16 U.S.C. 1857(1)(K)) is amended— (1) by striking "knowingly steal or without authorization, to" and inserting "to steal or attempt to steal or to negligently and without authorization"; and (2) by striking "gear, or attempt to do so;" and insert gear;. (c) Section 307(1)(L) (16 U.S.C. 1857(1)(L)) is amended to read as follows:

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