Sec. 2. **[**[16 U.S.C. 773](/us/usc/t16/s773)**]**
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## Sec. 2 **[**[16 U.S.C. 773](/us/usc/t16/s773)**]** As used in this Act the term: ###
(a)“**Convention**” means the Convention between the United States of America and Canada for the Preservation of the Halibut Fishery of the Northern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, signed at Ottawa, Canada on March 2, 1953, as amended by the Protocol Amending the Convention, signed at Washington March 29, 1979, and includes the regulations promulgated thereunder. ###
(b)“**Commission**” means the International Pacific Halibut Commission provided for by article III of the Convention. ### (c)1 “**Fishery conservation zone**” means the fishery conservation zone of the United States established by section 101 of the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 19762 (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.). 1Effective upon the date on which the Agreement between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Maritime Boundary, signed June 1, 1990, enters into force for the United States, section 302(a)(1) of Public Law 102–251 amends section 2(c) to read as follows: ``(c) “Exclusive economic zone” means the zone established by Proclamation Numbered 5030, dated March 10, 1983. For purposes of applying this Act, the inner boundary of that zone is a line coterminous with the seaward boundary of each of the coastal States.''. Section 302(a)(2) of such Public Law adds at the end of section 2 the following: ``(h) “Special areas” means the areas referred to as eastern special areas in Article 3(1) of the Agreement between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Maritime Boundary, signed June 1, 1990; in particular, the term refers to those areas east of the maritime boundary, as defined in that Agreement, that lie within 200 nautical miles of the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea of Russia is measured but beyond 200 nautical miles of the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea of the United States is measured.''. 2Section 211 of the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 (Division A, title II of P.L. 104–208; 110 Stat. 3009–41) changed (by amendment) the short title of such Act to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery and Conservation and Management Act and provided that “all references to the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act shall be redesignated as references to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act”. Since such section did not actually amend each occurrence of the short title in law, the former short title appears here. ###
(d)“**Convention waters**” means the maritime areas off the west coast of the United States and Canada described in article I of the Convention. ###
(e)“**Halibut**” means fish of the species Hippoglossus stenolepis inhabiting Convention waters. ###
(f)“**Fishing vessel**” means— ####
(1)any vessel engaged in catching fish in Convention waters or in processing or transporting fish loaded in Convention waters; ####
(2)any vessel outfitted to engage in any activity described in paragraph (1); or ####
(3)any vessel in normal support of any vessel described in paragraph
(1)or (2). ###
(g)“**Secretary**” means the Secretary of Commerce.
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- Pub. L. 102-251
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**[**[16 U.S.C. 773](/us/usc/t16/s773)**]**
Pub. L.Pub. L. 102-251
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