Cormorant Relief Act of 2025
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 6
- Latest action
- Apr 2, 2025
What it does
The Cormorant Relief Act of 2025 would require the Secretary of the Interior to reissue a federal regulation allowing the taking of double-crested cormorants at aquaculture facilities, expanding its application to twelve additional states and to licensed lake and pond managers. The reissued rule must mirror the original 2016 depredation order but extend its authority to cover California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, as well as lake and pond managers, in addition to the entities and states originally covered. This change aims to provide relief to aquaculture operations facing cormorant predation by…
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Where it stands
Introduced (Done)
Committee (Current step)
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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.