Highly Migratory Species Fisheries Management
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2026-06-03 — To amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to provide for the regulation of fishing in marine national monuments.: cross-connection with marine-national-monuments-fishing: Shifting monument fishing to Magnuson-Stevens governance would route decisions through the same regional council / HMS framework used for other federal fisheries. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-09-15 — Pacific Island Fisheries; Catch and Retention Limits for Striped Marlin in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean North of the Equator: cross-connection with fisheries-management-pacific-striped-marlin: Striped marlin is a WCPFC-managed highly migratory species; the U.S. cap implements an international conservation and management measure. (novelty: 2)
- 1990-11-27 — Fishery Conservation Amendments of 1990: S. Fishery Conservation Amendments of 1990 (introduced) would bring highly migratory species such as tuna under U.S. fishery management authority under the Magnuson Act and limit foreign vessel access in U.S. waters to the portion of the allowable catch not harvested by American boats. (novelty: 3)