Reading Room Document

Participation by Processor-Owned Catcher Vessels in Inshore Cooperatives Under the American Fisheries Act of 1998

Section 210(b) of the American Fisheries Act of 1998 permits catcher vessels owned by shoreside processors to participate in AFA-authorized fishery cooperatives. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/19451/download.

December 10, 1999