94 STAT. 3296
PUBLIC LAW 96-561—DEC. 22, 1980 PART C—AMENDMENTS TO THE FISHERY CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT ACT OF 1976
SUBPART 1 — FOREIGN FISHING IN FISHERIES SUBJECT TO THE EXCLUSIVE FISHERY MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY OF THE UNITED STATES SEC. 230. FOREIGN FISHING.
Section 201(d) of the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 (16 U.S.C. 1821(d)) is amended to read as follows: Definitions.
"(d) TOTAL ALLOWABLE L E V E L OF FOREIGN FiSHING.—(1) A s USed i n
this subsection— "(A) The term 'base harvest' means, with respect to any United States fishery, the total allowable level of foreign fishing during the 1979 harvesting season. "(B) The term 'harvesting season' means the period established under this Act by the Secretary during which foreign fishing is permitted within a United States fishery. For purposes of this subsection, a harvesting season is designated by the calendar year in which the last day of the harvesting season occurs, regardless whether fishing is not permitted on that day due to emergency or other closure of the fishery. "(C) The term 'calculation factor' means, with respect to each United States fishery, 15 percent of the base harvest. "(D) The term 'reduction factor amount' means, with respect to each United States fishery, for any harvesting season after the 1980 harvesting season— "(i) an amount equal to 15 percent of the base harvest for that fishery, if, in addition to the level of harvest by vessels of the United States in the designated preceding harvesting season for the fishery, such vessels harvest, in one or more harvesting seasons, not less than 75 percent of the calculation factor; "(ii) an amount equal to 10 percent of the base harvest for the fishery, if, in addition to the level of harvest by vessels of the United States in the designated preceding harvesting season for the fishery, such vessels harvest, in one or more harvesting seasons, not less than 50 percent, but less than 75 percent, of the calculation factor; or "(iii) an amount equal to 5 percent of the base harvest for the fishery, if, in addition to the level of harvest by vessels of the United States in the designated previous harvesting season for the fishery, such vessels harvest, in one or more harvesting seasons, not less than 25 percent, but less than 50 percent, of the calculation factor. For purposes of this paragraph, the term 'designated preceding harvest season' means— "(I) until a reduction factor amount is first achieved under this paragraph with respect to the fishery concerned, the 1979 harvesting season, and "(II) after such amount is first achieved, the most recent harvesting season in which a reduction factor amount was achieved. "(E) The term 'annual fishing level' for any United States fishery during any harvesting season after the 1980 harvesting season is the base harvest for the fishery reduced by— "(i) an amount equal to the reduction factor amount for that harvesting season; and
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