In 1971, Congressman Thomas M. Pelly introduced an amendment to the Act designed to preserve salmon stocks in the Atlantic, hoping to block fishery imports by sanctioning countries that caught salmon on the open sea in ways or amounts that violated established agreements.
一九七一年，美國聯邦眾議員湯馬士．培利則針對大西洋公海鮭魚資源的養護，提出一修正案，希望可以禁止漁產品進口，以制裁不依協定在公海採捕鮭魚的國家。