To provide for the conservation and management of Weakfish, and for other purposes.
Weakfish Conservation Act of 1992 - Amends the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act to apply such Act, including prohibitions on fishing during a moratorium period, to weakfish.
Directs the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission to determine whether: (1) each coastal State has adopted measures necessary to implement the Interstate Fisheries Management Plan for Weakfish (dated 1985) in its coastal waters; and (2) the enforcement by the Plan by each State is satisfactory.
Requires the Secretaries of Commerce and the Interior to declare a moratorium on fishing for weakfish in States that are not in compliance with the Plan.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
Executive Comment Requested from Commerce, Interior.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment Discharged.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. H. Rept. 102-926.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. H. Rept. 102-926.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 526.
Mr. Studds moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Considered under suspension of the rules.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.
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