WASHINGTON (Saving Seafood) — February 29, 2016 — The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans will hold a meeting on March 1, 2016 at 2:00pm to discuss a bill that implements U.S. participation in two international fisheries treaties that the country helped negotiate: the Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fisheries Resources in the North Pacific Ocean, and the Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fishery Resources in the South Pacific Ocean.
Bill Summary:
H.R. 4576 implements U.S. participation in two international fishery management agreements to which the United States helped negotiate: the Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fisheries Resources in the North Pacific Ocean and the Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fishery Resources in the South Pacific Ocean.
The bill also amends the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention Implementation Act (P.L. 109-479) to help ensure that U.S. Commissioners to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention (Convention) advocate positions that minimize disadvantages to U.S. fishermen in relation to other foreign entities party to the Convention.
Witnesses (listed in alphabetical order):
Ambassador David Balton
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Fisheries
U.S. Department of State Washington, D.C.
Mr. Brian Hallman
Executive Director
American Tunaboat Association San Diego, California
Mr. Dan Hull
Chairman
North Pacific Fishery Management Council Anchorage, Alaska
Ms. Kitty Simonds
Executive Director
West Pacific Fishery Management Council Honolulu, Hawaii
Mr. Russell Smith
Deputy Assistant
Secretary for International Fisheries National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Washington, D. C.
Cosponsors: Rep. Don Young (R-AK)
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