Sec. 505. Overfished fisheries and preventing overfishing
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Section 302(g)(1) ( 16 U.S.C. 1852(g)(1) ) is amended— in subparagraph (A), by inserting ecological, after social, ; and by amending subparagraph
(B)to read as follows: Each scientific and statistical committee shall provide its Council with ongoing scientific advice for fishery management decisions, including— recommendations for accounting for all sources of mortality in establishing management measures, for the acceptable biological catch levels, for preventing overfishing, for maximum sustainable yield, and for achieving rebuilding targets and promoting resilience of fish stocks to climate change; objective and measurable criteria for determining whether a stock is overfished or experiencing overfishing; and reports on stock status and health, sources of mortality, bycatch, habitat status, social, ecological, and economic impacts of management measures, and sustainability of fishing practices, and prevailing and anticipated future impacts of climate change on fish stocks, fishing communities, and fishery sectors. . Section 303(a)(10) ( 16 U.S.C. 1853(a)(10) ) is amended to read as follows: specify objective and measurable criteria for identifying when the fish stock to which the plan applies is overfished or subject to overfishing (with an analysis of how the criteria were determined and the relationship of the criteria to the reproductive potential of stocks of fish in that fishery), which may not be less precautionary than the recommendation of the scientific and statistical committees for such fishery, and, in the case of a fishery which the Council or the Secretary has determined is approaching an overfished condition or is overfished, contain conservation and management measures to prevent overfishing or end overfishing and rebuild the fishery. . Section 301 of the Modernizing Recreational Fisheries Management Act of 2018 ( 16 U.S.C. 1801 note) is amended to read as follows: Nothing in this Act, including the amendment made by section 102(a)(3), shall be construed as modifying the requirements of sections 301(a), 302(h)(6), 303(a)(15), or 304(e) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, or the equal application of such requirements and other standards and requirements under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to commercial, charter, and recreational fisheries, including each component of mixed-use fisheries. .
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