Candidate Notes on 95-S39

95-S39 on Jan 4, 1995

Amends the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act to:
• Prohibit individual fishing quota programs unless approved before January 4,
• Mandates guidelines regarding fish habitat conservation and enhancement.
• Modifies requirements regarding emergency actions (including concerning oil spills) and adds to the emergency action provisions references to interim measures needed to reduce overfishing.
• Provides for an information collection program specific to the needs of a fishery.
• Requires a comprehensive program of fishery research to carry out this Act;
• Requires developing technological changes to minimize bycatch and evaluate related ecological impacts, benefits, and costs, and assess the use of unavoidable bycatch; and
• Establishes of a fishery conservation and management ecosystem advisory panel.

Corresponding House bill is H.R.39. Became Public Law No: 104-297.