Amends the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act to direct the Secretary of Commerce to prescribe minimum health and safety standards to be maintained on foreign fishing vessels with respect to the quartering of and carrying out of observer functions by U.S. observers aboard such vessels.
Requires all foreign vessels to have written certification that such vessel complies with all safety standards imposed by its country.
Directs the Secretary to suspend a foreign vessel's fishing permit if the minimum safety and health standards imposed under this Act are not maintained.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
Executive Comment Requested from Commerce, Interior, DOT.
Referred to Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment.
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