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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Dec 9, 2014
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2014 - Reauthorizes and revises the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA), the Anadromous Fish Conservation Act, the Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act of 1986, the Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act, the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act, the Yukon River Salmon Act of 2000, the Atlantic Tunas Convention Act of 1975, and the High Seas Driftnet Fishing Moratorium Protection Act through FY2021. Reauthorizes the South Pacific Tuna Act of 1988. Reauthorizes the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Convention Act of 1995 through FY2020.
Extends permanently the authority of Washington, Oregon, and California to manage any Dungeness crab fishery that does not have a fishery management plan under the MSA and is in the exclusive economic zone adjacent to the state.
Revises the MSA, including by:
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providing for the role of tribal governments in managing fish,
adding subsistence fishing to the types of fishing managed under the Act,
giving regional fishery management councils the authority to use alternative fishery management measures in a recreational fishery,
providing for the management of depleted fisheries,
increasing civil and criminal penalties,
establishing a Fisheries Enforcement Fund, and
revising requirements governing fishery management plans and regional fishery management councils.
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Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK] · D–AK
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Introduced in Senate
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