Section was enacted as part of the High Seas Driftnet Fishing Moratorium Protection Act, and also as part of the Fisheries Act of 1995, and not as part of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act which comprises this chapter.

2022—Pub. L. 117–328, § 205(b)(2), designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted heading, added subsecs. (b) and (c), and realigned margins.

2016—Pub. L. 114–327, in introductory provisions, inserted “on June 1 of that year” after “every 2 years thereafter,”.

2015—Par. (2). Pub. L. 114–81 substituted “that” for “whose vessels”.