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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes · Sec. 205

Sec. 205. DEFINITIONS

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## SEC. 205 DEFINITIONS **[**[16 U.S.C. 1851 note](/us/usc/t16/s1851)**]** As used in this subtitle— ####
(1)the term “**Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area**” has the same meaning as the meaning given for such term in part 679.2 of title 50, Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on October 1, 1998; ####
(2)the term “**catcher/processor**” means a vessel that is used for harvesting fish and processing that fish; ####
(3)the term “**catcher vessel**” means a vessel that is used for harvesting fish and that does not process pollock onboard; ####
(4)the term “**directed pollock fishery**” means the fishery for the directed fishing allowances allocated under paragraphs (1), (2), and
(3)of section 206(b); ####
(5)the term “**harvest**” means to commercially engage in the catching, taking, or harvesting of fish or any activity that can reasonably be expected to result in the catching, taking, or harvesting of fish; ####
(6)the term “**inshore component**” means the following categories that process groundfish harvested in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area: #####
(A)shoreside processors, including those eligible under section 208(f); and #####
(B)vessels less than 125 feet in length overall that process less than 126 metric tons per week in round-weight equivalents of an aggregate amount of pollock and Pacific cod; ####
(7)the term “**Magnuson-Stevens Act**” means the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.); ####
(8)the term “**mothership**” means a vessel that receives and processes fish from other vessels in the exclusive economic zone of the United States and is not used for, or equipped to be used for, harvesting fish; ####
(9)the term “**North Pacific Council**” means the North Pacific Fishery Management Council established under section 302(a)(1)(G) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act (16 U.S.C. 1852(a)(1)(G)); ####
(10)the term “**offshore component**” means all vessels not included in the definition of “**inshore component**” that process groundfish harvested in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area; ####
(11)the term “**Secretary**” means the Secretary of Commerce; and ####
(12)the term “**shoreside processor**” means any person or vessel that receives unprocessed fish, except catcher/processors, motherships, buying stations, restaurants, or persons receiving fish for personal consumption or bait.
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