Amends the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act to include the District of Columbia and the Potomac River Fisheries Commission as coastal States and the waters within their jurisdiction as coastal waters for purposes of the Act. Defines "Atlantic striped bass."
Directs the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (the Commission), during December of FY 1987 and each fiscal year thereafter, to monitor each coastal State's adoption and enforcement of such Commission's Striped Bass Plan. Requires the Commission to immediately notify the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of the Interior of any State's nonenforcement of such Plan. Requires the Secretaries, within 30 days after receiving such notification from the Commission, to jointly determine that State's compliance with the Plan, and, if the State is not in compliance, to jointly declare a moratorium on Atlantic striped bass fishing within that State's coastal waters.
Extends the authorization of appropriations under, and effective date of, such Act through FY 1988.
Extends the funding of certain striped bass population studies under the Anadromous Fish Conservation Act through FY 1988.
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer to the State of Montana all rights, title, and interest in the Miles City National Fish Hatchery, near Miles City, Montana, such property to be used solely for fishery resources management programs.
Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Voice Vote.
Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Report No: 99-532.
Placed on Union Calendar No: 309.
Called up by House Under Suspension of Rules.
Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Passed House (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 637.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
Senate struck all after the Enacting Clause and substituted the language of S. 1813 amended.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate in lieu of S. 1813 with an amendment by Voice Vote.
Passed Senate in lieu of S. 1813 with an amendment by Voice Vote.
Called up by House Under Suspension of Rules.
Resolving differences -- House actions: House Agreed to Senate Amendments by Voice Vote.
Enacted as Public Law 99-432
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House Agreed to Senate Amendments by Voice Vote.
Measure Signed in Senate.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 99-432.
Became Public Law No: 99-432.