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[CITE: 16USC712]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
     CHAPTER 7--PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY GAME AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS
 
                  SUBCHAPTER II--MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY
 
Sec. 712. Treaty and convention implementing regulations; 
        seasonal taking of migratory birds for essential needs of 
        indigenous Alaskans to preserve and maintain stocks of the 
        birds; protection and conservation of the birds
        
    (1) In accordance with the various migratory bird treaties and 
conventions with Canada, Japan, Mexico, and the Union of Soviet 
Socialist Republics, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to 
issue such regulations as may be necessary to assure that the taking of 
migratory birds and the collection of their eggs, by the indigenous 
inhabitants of the State of Alaska, shall be permitted for their own 
nutritional and other essential needs, as determined by the Secretary of 
the Interior, during seasons established so as to provide for the 
preservation and maintenance of stocks of migratory birds.
    (2) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to issue such 
regulations as may be necessary to implement the provisions of the 
convention between the United States and Great Britain for the 
protection of migratory birds concluded August 16, 1916, the convention 
between the United States and the United Mexican States for the 
protection of migratory birds and game mammals concluded February 7, 
1936, the convention between the United States and the Government of 
Japan for the protection of migratory birds in danger of extinction, and 
their environment concluded March 4, 1972, and the convention between 
the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the 
conservation of migratory birds and their environment concluded November 
19, 1976.

(Pub. L. 95-616, Sec. 3(h)(2), (3), Nov. 8, 1978, 92 Stat. 3112.)

                          Codification

    Par. (1) of section 3(h) of Pub. L. 95-616 amended section 706 of 
this title. Pars. (2) and (3) of such section 3(h) were redesignated (1) 
and (2) for codification purposes.
    Section was enacted as part of the Fish and Wildlife Improvement Act 
of 1978, and not as part of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act which 
comprises this subchapter.
