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PUBLIC LAW 91-315-JULY 10, 1970

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Public Law 91-315 AN ACT

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To consent to the amendment of the Pacific Marine Fisheries Compact.

[H. R. 13407]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Pacific United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Fisheries Marine Compact, the Congress is hereby given to the amendments to articles I, II, IV, amendment. and X of the Pacific Marme Fisheries Compact, as amended. C(fn°"ess! °^ SEC. 2. Article I of the Pacific Marine Fisheries Compact, as 6iStat.'4i9 amended, would read substantially as follows: ^^ ^*^*' '^^3. "ARTICLE

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"The purposes of this compact are and shall be to promote the better utilization of fisheries, marine, shell and anadromous, which are of mutual concern, and to develop a joint program of protection and prevention of physical waste of such fisheries in all of those areas of the Pacific Ocean and adjacent waters over which the compacting States jointly or separately now have or may hereafter acquire jurisdiction. "Nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to authorize the compacting States or any of them to limit the production of fish or fish products for the purpose of establishing or fixing the prices thereof or creating and perpetuating a monopoly." SEC, 3. Article II of the Pacific Marine Fisheries Compact, as amended, would substantially read as follows: "ARTICLE

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"This agreement shall become operative immediately as to those States executing it whenever two or more of the compacting States have executed it in the form that is in accordance with the laws of the executing States and the Congress has given its consent." SEC. 4. Article IV of the Pacific Marine Fisheries Compact, as amended, would read substantially as follows: "ARTICLE

IV

"The duty of the said commission shall be to make inquiry and ascertain from time to time such methods, practices, circumstances and conditions as may be disclosed for bringing about the conservation and the prevention of the depletion and physical waste of the fisheries, marine, shell and anadromous, in all of those areas of the Pacific Ocean over which the States signatory to this compact jointly or separately now have or may hereafter acquire jurisdiction. The commission shall have power to recommend the coordination of the exercise of the police powers of the several States within their respective jurisdictions and said conservation zones to promote the preservation of those fisheries and their protection against over-fishing, waste, depletion, or any abuse whatsoever and to assure a continuing yield from the fisheries resources of the signatory parties hereto. "To that end the commission shall draft and, after consultation with the advisory committee hereinafter authorized, recommend to the Governors and legislative branches of the various signatory States hereto legislation dealing with the conservation of the marine, shell and anadromous fisheries in all of those areas of the Pacific Ocean over which the signatory States jointly or separately now have or may hereafter acquire jurisdiction. The commission shall, more than one month prior to any regular meeting of the legislative branch in any State signatory hereto, present to the Governor of such State its

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