Sec. 404. Cooperative research and management
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Section 318 ( 16 U.S.C. 1867 ) is amended— in subsection (a), by inserting fishing communities, after data), ; by amending subsection
(b)to read as follows: The Secretary shall make funds available under the program for the support of cooperative research and management projects to address critical needs identified by the Councils. Each Council shall provide a list of such needs to the Secretary on an annual basis, identifying and prioritizing such needs. The program shall promote and encourage efforts to use sources of data maintained by other Federal agencies, State agencies, local and traditional knowledge, or academia for use in such projects. ; by amending subsection
(c)to read as follows:— In making funds available the Secretary shall award funding on a competitive basis and based on regional fishery management needs, select programs that form part of a coherent program of cooperative research or management projects focused on addressing priority issues identified by the Councils, and shall give priority to the following projects: Projects to collect data to improve, supplement, or enhance stock assessments, including the use of fishing vessels or acoustic or other marine technology. Projects to improve fishery dependent data collection, intake, use, and access including— to assess the amount and type of bycatch or post-release mortality occurring in a fishery; expanding the use of electronic technology and modernizing data management systems; and improving monitoring coverage through the expanded use of electronic technology. Conservation engineering or management projects designed to reduce bycatch, including avoidance of post-release mortality, reduction of bycatch in high seas fisheries, and transfer of such fishing technologies and methods to other nations, or other regional entities, including fishing communities, regional fishery associations, and fishing sectors. Projects for the identification of habitat areas of particular concern and for habitat conservation. Projects designed to collect and compile economic and social data for which electronic technologies can be added. Projects to test and expand electronic technologies for monitoring, reporting, observer coverage, and other functions. Projects that use electronic technologies to monitor changing ocean conditions, improve methods, support adaptive management, and ensure climate resilient fisheries. Projects designed to identify the impacts of anticipated changing ocean conditions, including climate change, on fish stocks, fisheries, and fishing communities or designed to develop conservation and management strategies to adapt to those impacts. Cooperative management projects that make use of data collected under this section. ; by redesignating subsections
(e)and
(f)as subsections
(f)and (g), respectively; by inserting after subsection
(d)the following: Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in consultation with the Councils and with input from the public, shall issue guidance to facilitate a transparent, timely, uniform, and regionally based process for the development, oversight, and management of cooperative management agreements. The Secretary may use the process developed pursuant to
(d)to approve cooperative management agreements as if such agreements are cooperative fishing agreements. An agreement authorized by this subsection shall be subject to performance standards and accountability measures specified in a fishery management plan or otherwise established by the Secretary, in consultation with the Councils, and shall not allow catch in excess of annual catch limits or bycatch in excess of bycatch caps or limits. This subsection shall not apply to a cooperative management agreement submitted to, proposed by or approved by the Secretary before the date of enactment of this Act. ; and by adding at the end the following: With respect to any cooperative research project funded or experimental fishing permit issued under this section, the appropriate Council shall publish a report of results and data generated by such project or under such permit. Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Assistant Administrator for Fisheries shall provide a report to Congress on progress in implementing the recommendations of the Cooperative Research and Cooperative Management Working Group report entitled NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS–F/SPO–156 and published in August 2015 and on the development and implementation of any subsequent recommendations by such Working Group. . Section 2(a)(8) is amended by inserting Fisheries management is most effective when it uses the best scientific information available, and incorporates such information from governmental and nongovernmental sources, including State and Federal agency staff, fishermen, fishing communities, universities, nonprofit organizations, local and traditional knowledge from Tribes, Indigenous communities, and subsistence fishermen, and research institutions. Scientific and statistical committees should consider such information when seeking the best scientific information available to form the basis of conservation and management. after States .
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