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 9 1 STAT. 14

PUBLIC LAW 9 5 - 6 — F E B. 21, 1977

Public Law 95-6 95th Congress Joint Resolution Feb. 21, 1977 [H.J. Res. 240]

16 USC 1801 note.

16 USC 1821. Fishery Conservation Zone Transition Act. 16 USC 1801 note.

To give congressional approval to certain governing international fishery agreements negotiated in accordance with the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976, and for other purposes. Whereas the Government of the United States of America and the Governments of the People's Republic of Bulg^aria, the Socialist Republic of Romania, the Republic of China, the German Democratic Republic, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the Polish People's Republic have signed governing international fishery agreements for the conservation,,optimum utilization, and rational management of fisheries subject to the exclusive fishery management jurisdiction of the United States under the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 (Public Law 94-265) (hereinafter referred to as the " Act "); and Whereas the Act provides that after February 28, 1977, no foreign fishing is authorized within the fishery conservation zone, or for anadromous species or Continental Shelf fishery resources beyond the fishery conservation zone, unless (among other exceptions and requirements) such foreign fishing is authorized and conducted pursuant to a governing international fishery agreement; and Whereas the Act also provides that no governing international fishery agreement shall become effective with respect 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 agreement; and Whereas the Act further provides that Congress may prohibit the entering into force and eifect of any governing international fishery agreement by enactment of a joint resolution originating in either House of Congress during such 60-day period; and Whereas, the sixty-day period will not elapse with respect to any governing international fishery agreement, referred to in the first clause of this preamble, before March 1, 1977, the date on which the fishery conservation zone of the United States takes effect; and Whereas early congressional action on these governing international fishery agreements is necessary in order that fishing vessels of the foreign nations concerned may be permitted to fish in the fishery conservation zone after February 28, 1977, in compliance with such Act; and Whereas these governing international fishery agreements substantially comply with the requirements relating to such agreements contained in section 201(c) of the Act: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this joint resolution may be cited as the "Fishery Conservation Zone Transition Act".

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