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"The Senate **provided advice and consent** in 2003 to [ie, ratified] certain amendments that never entered into force" ... "The amendments to the preamble were originally agreed in 2002 and the Senate provided advice and consent to them in 2003, but they never entered into force." ... "amendments were submitted to the President on December 28, 2002, and transmitted to the Senate on February 11, 2003, but those amendments never entered into force." https://www.congress.gov/115/cdoc/tdoc3/CDOC-115tdoc3.pdf // sEE ALSO - https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CDOC-108tdoc2/html/CDOC-108tdoc2.htm [Editors note: The amendment of Article 3.2 was done at Koror on 19990330 and is included in those amendments as well but was duplicated with other amendments done at Kiritimati on 20020324 as part of the Agreed Record of Amendments to the Treaty On Fisheries Between The Governments Of Certain Pacific Island States And The Government Of The United States of America done at Kiritimati on 20020324.]. The Amendments to the Treaty will, among other things, allow U.S. longline vessels to fish in high seas portions of the Treaty Area; streamline the way amendments to the Treaty Annexes are agreed" (p. III of Senate document).