[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 50, Volume 7]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 50CFR216.46]



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                    TITLE 50--WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES

 

  CHAPTER II--NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND 

           ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

 

PART 216_REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE TAKING AND IMPORTING OF MARINE MAMMALS

--Table of Contents

 

                      Subpart D_Special Exceptions

 

Sec. 216.46  U.S. citizens on foreign flag vessels operating under the 

International Dolphin Conservation Program.



    The MMPA's provisions do not apply to a citizen of the United States 

who incidentally takes any marine mammal during fishing operations in 

the ETP which are outside the U.S. exclusive economic zone (as defined 

in section 3 of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act (16 U.S.C. 1802)), while employed on a fishing vessel of a 

harvesting nation that is participating in, and in compliance with, the 

IDCP.



[65 FR 56, Jan. 3, 2000]