Commercial Fishing Industry Vessel Anti-Reflagging Act of 1987

Summary

Commercial Fishing Industry Vessel Anti-Reflagging Act of 1987 - Amends the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act to revise the definition of "vessel of the United States" to insert references to specific provisions of existing law and to include any vessel not equipped with propulsion machinery and used exclusively for pleasure. Amends Federal law to revise the definition of "fisheries" to include processing, storing, and transporting of currently-specified marine life and objects. Declares that a provision of Federal law listing construction in the United States as one of several criteria for authorizing issuance of either a fishery license or an appropriately endorsed registry shall apply to a fish processing or fish tender vessel which was, before enactment of this Act, documented under certain provisions and operated as a fish processing or fish tender vessel in the navigable waters of the United States or the Exclusive Economic Zone. Amends Federal law to substitute fish processing and tender vessels for whaling vessels in an exemption to a provision relating to the percentage of unlicensed seamen on each departure of a documented vessel from a port of the United States who must be U.S. citizens. Requires, subject to exception, on a fishing, fish processing, or fish tender vessel which is documented and engaged in the fisheries in the navigable waters of the United States or the Exclusive Economic Zone, regardless of the port of departure, that 75 percent of the seamen must be citizens of the United States.

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• Public Law (PDF)

  Public Law · EN · 12 January 1988

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• House agreed to Senate amendment with amendment

  summary · EN · 21 December 1987

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• Reported to House with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 5 November 1987

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 4 June 1987

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