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bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives has re-introduced a bill in the latest bid to reauthorize the Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA).

U.S. representatives Jared Huffman (D-California), who is the ranking member of the U.S. Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries, along with Ed Case (D-Hawaii), Mary Peltola (D-Alaska), and U.S. Delegate James Moylan (R-Guam), reintroduced the “Sustaining America’s Fisheries for the Future Act” in a bid to renew the MSA – the law governing fisheries management at a federal level. The law was enacted in 1976 and was last reauthorized in 2006. 

The new bill is the latest attempt over the past four years to reauthorize the MSA after similar efforts in 2020 and a recent effort in 2022 ultimately fell short. Huffman – who has spearheaded the MSA renewal efforts – said he has sought extensive stakeholder input in a bid to finally cross the finish line and update the MSA. 

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