§ 773. — Definitions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC773]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 10--NORTHERN PACIFIC HALIBUT FISHING
SUBCHAPTER IV--NORTHERN PACIFIC HALIBUT ACT OF 1982
Sec. 773. Definitions
As used in this subchapter the term:
(a) ``Convention'' means the Convention between the United States of
America and Canada for the Preservation of the Halibut Fishery of the
Northern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, signed at Ottawa, Canada on March
2, 1953, as amended by the Protocol Amending the Convention, signed at
Washington March 29, 1979, and includes the regulations promulgated
thereunder.
(b) ``Commission'' means the International Pacific Halibut
Commission provided for by article III of the Convention.
(c) ``Fishery conservation zone'' means the fishery conservation
zone of the United States established by section 1811 \1\ of this title.
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(d) ``Convention waters'' means the maritime areas off the west
coast of the United States and Canada described in article I of the
Convention.
(e) ``Halibut'' means fish of the species Hippoglossus stenolepis
inhabiting Convention waters.
(f) ``Fishing vessel'' means--
(1) any vessel engaged in catching fish in Convention waters or
in processing or transporting fish loaded in Convention waters;
(2) any vessel outfitted to engage in any activity described in
paragraph (1); or
(3) any vessel in normal support of any vessel described in
paragraph (1) or (2).
(g) ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Commerce.
(Pub. L. 97-176, Sec. 2, May 17, 1982, 96 Stat. 78; Pub. L. 102-251,
title III, Sec. 302(a), Mar. 9, 1992, 106 Stat. 64; Pub. L. 104-208,
div. A, title I, Sec. 101(a) [title II, Sec. 211(b)], Sept. 30, 1996,
110 Stat. 3009, 3009-41.)
Amendment of Section
Pub. L. 102-251, title III, Secs. 302(a), 308, Mar. 9, 1992, 106
Stat. 64, 66, provided that, effective on the date on which the
Agreement between the United States and the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics on the Maritime Boundary, signed June 1, 1990,
enters into force for the United States, with authority to prescribe
implementing regulations effective Mar. 9, 1992, but with no such
regulation to be effective until the date on which the Agreement
enters into force for the United States, section is amended by
amending subsection (c) generally and adding subsection (h) to read
as follows:
(c) ``Exclusive economic zone'' means the zone established by
Proclamation Numbered 5030, dated March 10, 1983. For purposes of
applying this subchapter, the inner boundary of that zone is a line
coterminous with the seaward boundary of each of the coastal States.
(h) ``Special areas'' means the areas referred to as eastern special
areas in Article 3(1) of the Agreement between the United States of
America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Maritime
Boundary, signed June 1, 1990; in particular, the term refers to those
areas east of the maritime boundary, as defined in that Agreement, that
lie within 200 nautical miles of the baselines from which the breadth of
the territorial sea of Russia is measured but beyond 200 nautical miles
of the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea of the
United States is measured.
References in Text
Section 1811 of this title, referred to in subsec. (c), which
established the fishery conservation zone, was amended generally by Pub.
L. 99-659, title I, Sec. 101(b), Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3706, and now
relates to United States sovereign rights to fish and fishery management
authority within the exclusive economic zone.
Proclamation Numbered 5030, referred to in subsec. (c), is Proc. No.
5030, Mar. 10, 1983, 48 F.R. 10605, which is set out as a note under
section 1453 of this title.
Amendments
1996--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104-208 made technical amendment to
reference in original act which appears in text as reference to section
1811 of this title.
Effective Date of 1996 Amendment
Section 101(a) [title II, Sec. 211(b)] of div. A of Pub. L. 104-208
provided that the amendment made by that section is effective 15 days
after Oct. 11, 1996.
Effective Date of 1992 Amendment
Section 308 of title III of Pub. L. 102-251 provided that:
``(a) In General.--The amendment made by section 301(e)(3) [amending
section 1822 of this title] takes effect on the date of enactment of
this Act [Mar. 9, 1992], and the amendments made by the other provisions
of this title [amending this section and sections 773e, 1151, 1362,
1801, 1802, 1811, 1821, 1822, 1824, 1853, 1857, 1861, 3631, and 3636 of
this title and sections 1122 and 1124a of Title 33, Navigation and
Navigable Waters], except as provided in subsection (b), shall be
effective on the date on which the Agreement between the United States
and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Maritime Boundary,
signed June 1, 1990, enters into force for the United States.
``(b) Authority To Prescribe Regulations.--The authority to
prescribe regulations to implement the amendments made by this title
shall be effective on the date of enactment of this Act [Mar. 9, 1992],
but no such regulation may be effective until the date on which the
Agreement described in subsection (a) enters into force for the United
States.''
Short Title
Section 1 of Pub. L. 97-176 provided: ``That this Act [enacting this
subchapter and repealing subchapter III of this chapter] may be cited as
the `Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1982'.''
