Fisheries Modernization Act of 2025
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 3
- Latest action
- Jul 29, 2025
What it does
The Fisheries Modernization Act of 2025 would amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to expand eligibility for fishery resource disaster relief to include certain freshwater fisheries, specifically the red swamp crawfish and white river crawfish fisheries, when impacted by infrastructure-related causes such as failures or operations of flood control systems, spillways, levees, or diversions. The bill defines “infrastructure-related cause” and adds requirements for disaster assistance applications to include information on hydrological conditions, water quality, and environmental disruptions affecting these crawfish fisheries. It clarifies that these changes do…
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