Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvests Act of 2025
Passed first chamber: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Passed first chamber
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 10
- Latest action
- Mar 24, 2026
What it does
The Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvests Act of 2025 would establish and maintain a public list of foreign vessels, fleets, and their beneficial owners engaged in illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, requiring the Secretary of Commerce to develop, update, and publish the list annually in the Federal Register and online with detailed vessel and ownership information. The bill would also impose visa sanctions on foreign persons who are owners or beneficial owners of listed vessels, making them inadmissible to the United States and subject to visa revocation, unless a national interest waiver is granted by the President. The legislation authorizes $10 million annually from…
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Where it stands
Introduced (Done)
Committee (Done)
Floor (Current step)
Law (Not started)
What moved
Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.