---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 5607"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "5607"
heading: "Consultative committee"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/5607"
units:
  - "Chapter 76 — Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Convention"
---

# §5607. Consultative committee

- (a) **Establishment—** The Secretary of State and the [Secretary](/usc/16/5609.md?p=15), shall jointly establish a consultative committee to advise the [Secretaries](/usc/16/5609.md?p=15) on issues related to the [Convention](/usc/16/5609.md?p=5).
- (b) **Membership—**
  - (1) The membership of the Committee shall include [representatives](/usc/16/5609.md?p=13) from the New England and Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management [Councils](/usc/16/5609.md?p=7), the [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) represented on those [Councils](/usc/16/5609.md?p=7), the Atlantic [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) Marine Fisheries [Commission](/usc/16/5609.md?p=3), the fishing industry, the seafood processing industry, and others knowledgeable and experienced in the conservation and management of fisheries in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean.
  - (2) **Terms and Reappointment.—** Each member of the consultative committee shall serve for a term of 2 years and shall be eligible for reappointment.
- (c) **Duties of committee—** Members of the consultative committee may attend—
  - (1) all public meetings of the [Commission](/usc/16/5609.md?p=3);
  - (2) any other meetings to which they are invited by the [Commission](/usc/16/5609.md?p=3); and
  - (3) all nonexecutive meetings of the United States [Commissioners](/usc/16/5609.md?p=4).
- (d) **Relationship to other law—** [Chapter 10](/usc/5/chptI/ch10.md) of title 5 shall not apply to the consultative committee established under this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–43, title II, § 208, Nov. 3, 1995, 109 Stat. 380; Pub. L. 114–327, title V, § 507, Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1996; Pub. L. 117–286, § 4(a)(125), Dec. 27, 2022, 136 Stat. 4319.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2022—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 117–286 substituted “Chapter 10 of title 5” for “The Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.)”.

2016—Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 114–327, § 507(1), substituted “2” for “two”.

Subsec. (c)(1), (2). Pub. L. 114–327, § 507(2), struck out “General Council or the Fisheries” before “Commission;”.