Emergency Marine Fisheries Protection Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Emergency Marine Fisheries Protection Act - Declares it to be the purpose of this Act: (1) to take emergency action to protect and conserve threatened stocks of fish by asserting fishery management responsibility and authority over fish in an extended contiguous fishery zone and over certain species of fish beyond such zone, until a general international agreement on fishery jurisdiction comes into force or is provisionally applied; (2) to extend, as an emergency measure, the fishery management responsibility and authority of the United States to two hundred nautical miles; (3) to extend, as an emergency measure, fishery management responsibility and authority of the United States over anadromous species of fish which spawn in any fresh or estuarine waters of the United States; and (4) to commit the Federal Government to act to prevent further depletion, to restore depleted stocks, and to protect and conserve fish to the full extent of such emergency responsibility and authority. Establishes a fishery zone contiguous to the territorial sea of the United States. Sets the boundaries of the contiguous fishery zone at 197 miles from the outer limits of the territorial sea. Declares tha…