[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5804 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5804

                     To prohibit trade in billfish.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 21, 2010

Mr. Shadegg (for himself, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. 
  Cao, and Mr. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in 
addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs and Ways and Means, for a 
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
                     To prohibit trade in billfish.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Billfish Conservation Act of 2010''.

SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY.

    The Congress enacts this Act pursuant to clause 3 of section 8 of 
article I of the United States Constitution.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON TRADE IN BILLFISH.

    (a) Prohibition.--No person shall offer for sale, sell, import, or 
export, or have custody, control, or possession of for purposes of 
offering for sale, selling, importing, or exporting, billfish or 
products containing billfish.
    (b) Penalty.--For purposes of section 308(a) of the Magnuson-
Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1858(a)), a 
violation of this section shall be treated as an act prohibited by 
section 307 of that Act (16 U.S.C. 1857).
    (c)  Billfish Defined.--In this section the term ``billfish''--
            (1) means any fish of the species--
                    (A) Makaira nigricans (blue marlin);
                    (B) Kajikia audax (striped marlin);
                    (C) Istiompax indica (black marlin);
                    (D) Istiophorus platypterus (sailfish);
                    (E) Tetrapturus angustirostris (shortbill 
                spearfish);
                    (F) Kajikia albida (white marlin);
                    (G) Tetrapturus georgii (roundscale spearfish);
                    (H) Tetrapturus belone (Mediterranean spearfish); 
                and
                    (I) Tetrapturus pfluegeri (longbill spearfish); and
            (2) does not include the species Xiphias gladius 
        (swordfish).
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