US Congress House Bill 2304 (Prior Session Legislation)

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December 1 2011 - Committee Hearings Held.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Fishery Science Improvement Act of 2011 - Amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2006 to postpone from fishing year 2011 to 2014 the effective date upon which a mechanism for specifying annual catch limits and accountability measures for fisheries other than those determined by the Secretary of Commerce to be subject to overfishing must be established in fishery management plans prepared by any Regional Fishery Management Council or the Secretary, implementing regulations, or annual specifications. Makes the catch limit mechanism, for all fisheries, inapplicable to a fishery for any stock of fish: (1) for which a peer reviewed stock survey and stock assessment have not been performed during the five-year period before enactment of this Act and for which the Secretary determines overfishing is not occurring, and (2) that is an ecosystem stock. Defines "ecosystem stock" as a stock of fish determined by the Secretary to be a nontarget stock that is not overfished or likely to become overfished. Requires the Secretary, within 270 days after determining that a fishery is overfished, to perform a stock survey and stock assessment of each of the overfished stocks in the fishery and transmit the assessment to the appropriate Council.

Fishery Science Improvement Act of 2011

Rep Wittman, Robert J.	Rep Alexander, Rodney	Rep Barrow, John	Rep Bonner, Jo
Rep Bordallo, Madeleine Z.	Rep Boren, Dan	Rep Boswell, Leonard L.	Rep Boustany, Charles W., Jr.
Rep Calvert, Ken	Rep Cassidy, Bill	Rep Coble, Howard	Rep Cravaack, Chip
Rep Crenshaw, Ander	Rep Diaz-Balart, Mario	Rep Duncan, Jeff	Rep Duncan, John J., Jr.
Rep Fleming, John	Rep Flores, Bill	Rep Grimm, Michael G.	Rep Guinta, Frank C.
Rep Harris, Andy	Rep Heinrich, Martin	Rep Hunter, Duncan D.	Rep Kissell, Larry
Rep Landry, Jeffrey M.	Rep Latta, Robert E.	Rep McIntyre, Mike	Rep Mica, John L.
Rep Miller, Jeff	Rep Nunnelee, Alan	Rep Palazzo, Steven M.	Rep Rigell, E. Scott
Rep Ross, Mike	Rep Scalise, Steve	Rep Scott, Austin	Rep Scott, Tim
Rep Shuler, Heath	Rep Southerland, Steve II	Rep West, Allen B.	Rep Wilson, Joe
Rep Young, Don

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-12-01	House	Committee Hearings Held.
2011-06-22	House	Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

SB1916 (Related) 2011-11-28 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7911)

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HN02304:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr2304ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr2304ih.pdf