1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the “State Fisheries Act of 2014”.
State Fisheries Act of 2014
A BILL
To amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to grant to States on the Gulf of Mexico jurisdiction over fisheries out to 9 nautical miles from shore, and for other purposes.
2. State jurisdiction over fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico
Section 306(b) (16 U.S.C. 1856(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(3) Notwithstanding section 3(11) and subsection (a) of this section, for purposes of managing fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico, the seaward boundary of a coastal State in the Gulf of Mexico is a line 9 nautical miles seaward from the baseline from which the territorial sea of the United States is measured.”