Rhode Island Fishermen's Fairness Act of 2025
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 2
- Latest action
- Mar 26, 2025
What it does
The Rhode Island Fishermen's Fairness Act of 2025 would amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to add Rhode Island as a member state of the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council. This change would allow Rhode Island to participate in the council’s decision-making process regarding fishery management in the Mid-Atlantic region, increasing the council’s total number of voting members from 21 to 23 and adjusting the allocation of seats to reflect Rhode Island’s inclusion. The bill specifically modifies the list of states represented on the council by inserting Rhode Island after "States of" and after "except North Carolina," while updating the numerical counts…
AI summary · The lawmakers haven’t published an official summary of this bill yet, so 52 wrote this one from the bill’s text.
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