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Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act
This bill revises and reauthorizes through FY2022 the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA).
Revisions are made to: (1) requirements for fishery management plans for overfished fisheries; and (2) catch limit requirements, including by authorizing Regional Fishery Management Councils to consider changes in an ecosystem and the economic needs of the fishing communities when establishing the limits.
To distinguish between fish that are depleted due to fishing and those that are depleted for other reasons, the term "depleted" replaces the term "overfished" throughout the MSA.
Fishery impact statements must analyze the impacts of proposed actions in fishery management plans on the quality of the human environment.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) must publish a plan for implementing the Cooperative Research and Management Program.
The offshore jurisdiction of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama is extended from three miles to nine miles for the recreational management of red snapper.
The Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission must conduct all fishery stock assessments used for management purposes by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council for the fisheries managed under the Council's Reef Fish Management Plan.
Any commercial catch share allocation in a fishery in the Gulf of Mexico may only be traded by sale or lease within the same commercial fishing sector.
NOAA must develop a plan to conduct stock assessments for all fish for which a fishery management plan is in effect under this bill. Additionally, NOAA must develop guidelines that will incorporate data from private entities into fishery management plans.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 200 as introduced in House on Jan 3, 2017. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Jul 11, 2018Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveJul 11, 2018
House Jul 11, 2018 · the primary vote
Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act
Passed
222 Yea 193 Nay 13 not voting
Party-line vote 24 of 415 voting members broke with their own party: 9 Democrats, 15 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
428 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 200 and vote against it. 0 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 200 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
307 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.