competent regional organization
Defined in 1 dictionary — U.S. Code
United States Code
16 U.S.C. § 1362 — for the purposes of this chapter
The term “competent regional organization”—
(A) for the tuna fishery in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, means the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission; and
(B) in any other case, means an organization consisting of those nations participating in a tuna fishery, the purpose of which is the conservation and management of that fishery and the management of issues relating to that fishery.