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Code · U.S. Code · Title 16 - CONSERVATION · CHAPTER 71— ATLANTIC COASTAL FISHERIES COOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT · § 5101

§ 5101. Findings and purpose

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(a)Findings The Congress finds the following:
(1)Coastal fishery resources that migrate, or are widely distributed, across the jurisdictional boundaries of two or more of the Atlantic States and of the Federal Government are of substantial commercial and recreational importance and economic benefit to the Atlantic coastal region and the Nation.
(2)Increased fishing pressure, environmental pollution, and the loss and alteration of habitat have reduced severely certain Atlantic coastal fishery resources.
(3)Because no single governmental entity has exclusive management authority for Atlantic coastal fishery resources, harvesting of such resources is frequently subject to disparate, inconsistent, and intermittent State and Federal regulation that has been detrimental to the conservation and sustainable use of such resources and to the interests of fishermen and the Nation as a whole.
(4)The responsibility for managing Atlantic coastal fisheries rests with the States, which carry out a cooperative program of fishery oversight and management through the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. It is the responsibility of the Federal Government to support such cooperative interstate management of coastal fishery resources.
(5)The failure by one or more Atlantic States to fully implement a coastal fishery management plan can affect the status of Atlantic coastal fisheries, and can discourage other States from fully implementing coastal fishery management plans.
(6)It is in the national interest to provide for more effective Atlantic State fishery resource conservation and management.
(b)Purpose The purpose of this chapter is to support and encourage the development, implementation, and enforcement of effective interstate conservation and management of Atlantic coastal fishery resources.
(Pub. L. 103–206, title VIII, § 802, Dec. 20, 1993, 107 Stat. 2447; Pub. L. 106–555, title I, § 122(b)(1)(A), Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2766.)
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  • Pub. L. 103–206, title VIII, § 802
  • 107 Stat. 2447
  • Pub. L. 106–555, title I, § 122(b)(1)(A)
  • 114 Stat. 2766
  • Pub. L. 103–206
  • Pub. L. 106–555
  • Pub. L. 106–555, title I, § 121
  • Pub. L. 103–206, title VIII, § 801
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Pub. L.Pub. L. 103–206, title VIII, § 802
Stat.107 Stat. 2447
Pub. L.Pub. L. 106–555, title I, § 122(b)(1)(A)
Stat.114 Stat. 2766
Pub. L.Pub. L. 103–206
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