SUBSCRIBER ONLY ‘Safeguard our oceans’: Jared Huffman revives update to fisheries bill

The bill would be the first update to the Magnuson-Stevens Act in 18 years, modernizing fisheries management in federal waters

Lawmakers from the House Natural Resources Committee last week announced that they were reintroducing the “Sustaining America’s Fisheries for the Future Act,” a reauthorization of and update to the Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA), “the country’s primary statute governing fisheries management in federal waters.”

The legislation, a bipartisan effort put forth by U.S. Representatives Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael), James Moylan (R-Guam), and Ed Case (D-Hawaii), represents “a culmination of a years-long, nationwide stakeholder engagement effort led by ranking member Huffman,” according to a news release from Huffman’s office.

“The ocean is the beating heart of our planet: it feeds us, regulates our climate and supports coastal economies across the country,” Huffman said in the release. “But our oceans and fisheries are under mounting pressure from climate change, habitat degradation and shortsighted management.

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By:  Robert Schaulis
Source: Times Standard

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