Sec. 2. DEFINITIONS
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## SEC. 2 DEFINITIONS **[**[16 U.S.C. 3631](/us/usc/t16/s3631)**]** As used in this title, unless the context otherwise requires, the term— ###
(a)“**Commission**” means the Pacific Salmon Commission established by the Treaty; ###
(b)“**enhancement**” means manmade improvements to natural habitats, or the application of artificial fish culture technology, that will lead to the increase of salmon stocks; ###
(c)“**Magnuson Act**” means the Act entitled “**the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act,**”1 as approved April 13, 1976, and as later amended (16 U.S.C. section 1801 et seq.); 1So in law. Section 211 of the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 (as contained in section 101(a), title I of Division A of Public Law 104–208; 110 Stat. 3009–41) provides: Sec. 211.
(a)Effective 15 days after the enactment of the Sustainable Fisheries Act, section 1 of the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801) shall be amended to read as follows: “**That this Act may be cited as the ‘**Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act**’.**”
(b)Effective 15 days after the enactment of the Sustainable Fisheries Act, 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)“**Panel**” means any of the Panels established by the Treaty; ###
(e)“**person**” means any individual (whether or not a citizen or national of the United States), any corporation, partnership, association, or other entity (whether or not organized or existing under the laws of any State); ###
(f)“**salmon**” means any anadromous species of the family Salmonidae and genus Oncorhynchus, commonly known as Pacific salmon, including but not limited to:Popular names Scientific nameChinook or King SalmonOncorhynchus tshawytschaCoho or Silver SalmonOncorhynchus kisutchPink or HumpbackOncorhynchus gorbuschaChum or Dog SalmonOncorhynchus ketaSockeye or Red SalmonOncorhynchus nerkaand shall also include Steelhead (Salmo gairdneri); ###
(g)“**Secretary**” means the Secretary of Commerce; ### (h)2 “**Treaty**” means the Treaty between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Canada Concerning Pacific Salmon, signed at Ottawa, January 28, 1985; 2Effective 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, with authority to prescribe implementing regulations effective March 9, 1992, but with no such regulation to be effective until the date on which the Agreement enters into force for the United States, section 306(a) of the Flower Garden National Marine Sanctuary (P.L. 102–251; 106 Stat. 66) amends section 2 by redesignating subsections
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(g)the following new subsection: ``(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.''. ### (i)2 “**treaty Indian tribe**” means any of the federally recognized Indian tribes of the Columbia River basin, Washington coast or Puget Sound areas having reserved fishing rights to salmon stocks subject to the Treaty under treaties with the United States Government; and ### (j)2 “**United States Section**” means the four United States Commissioners appointed by the President pursuant to this title.
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Sec. 2
DEFINITIONS
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