{"data":{"id":"us/50-cfr-253.50","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"50 CFR 253.50","heading":"Definitions.","body":"The terms used in this subpart have the following meanings:\nAct means the Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act of 1986, Public Law 99-659 (Title III).\nAdopt means to implement an interstate fishery management plan by State action or regulation.\nCommercial fishery failure means a serious disruption of a fishery resource affecting present or future productivity due to natural or undetermined causes. It does not include either:\n(1) The inability to harvest or sell raw fish or manufactured and processed fishery merchandise; or\n(2) Compensation for economic loss suffered by any segment of the fishing industry as the result of a resource disaster.\nEnforcement agreement means a written agreement, signed and dated, between a state agency and either the Secretary of the Interior or Secretary of Commerce, or both, to enforce Federal and state laws pertaining to the protection of interjurisdictional fishery resources.\nFederal fishery management plan means a plan developed and approved under the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.).\nFisheries management means all activities concerned with conservation, restoration, enhancement, or utilization of fisheries resources, including research, data collection and analysis, monitoring, assessment, information dissemination, regulation, and enforcement.\nFishery resource means finfish, mollusks, and crustaceans, and any form of marine or Great Lakes animal or plant life, including habitat, other than marine mammals and birds.\nInterjurisdictional fishery resource means:\n(1) A fishery resource for which a fishery occurs in waters under the jurisdiction of one or more states and the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone; or\n(2) A fishery resource for which an interstate or a Federal fishery management plan exists; or\n(3) A fishery resource which migrates between the waters under the jurisdiction of two or more States bordering on the Great Lakes.\nInterstate Commission means a commission or other administrative body established by an interstate compact.\nInterstate compact means a compact that has been entered into by two or more states, established for purposes of conserving and managing fishery resources throughout their range, and consented to and approved by Congress.\nInterstate Fisheries Research Program means research conducted by two or more state agencies under a formal interstate agreement.\nInterstate fishery management plan means a plan for managing a fishery resource developed and adopted by the member states of an Interstate Marine Fisheries Commission, and contains information regarding the status of the fishery resource and fisheries, and recommends actions to be taken by the States to conserve and manage the fishery resource.\nLanded means the first point of offloading fishery resources.\nNMFS Regional Director means the Director of any one of the five National Marine Fisheries Service regions.\nProject means an undertaking or a proposal for research in support of management of an interjurisdictional fishery resource or an interstate fishery management plan.\nResearch means work or investigative study, designed to acquire knowledge of fisheries resources and their habitat.\nSecretary means the Secretary of Commerce or his/her designee.\nState means each of the several states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, Guam, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.\nState agency means any department, agency, commission, or official of a state authorized under the laws of the State to regulate commercial fisheries or enforce laws relating to commercial fisheries.\nValue means the monetary worth of fishery resources used in developing the apportionment formula, which is equal to the price paid at the first point of landing.\nVolume means the weight of the fishery resource as landed, at the first point of landing.","path":["Title 50—Wildlife and Fisheries","CHAPTER II—NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE","SUBCHAPTER F—AID TO FISHERIES","PART 253—FISHERIES ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS","Subpart C—Interjurisdictional Fisheries"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-50.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:39Z","sha256":"c52398f663bc6459339633c163a61f911919a974ee74753893319f2ae44c026f","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/50-cfr-253.32-253.49","next":"us/50-cfr-253.51"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}