Previously unsuccessful efforts to reform the US's main federal fishing law, the Magnuson-Stevens Act, are positioned to move ahead under a Donald Trump administration.
New efforts to amend the US Magnuson-Stevens Act are expected from the new Congress, leaving some in industry concerned with any move away from a law judged by many to have worked reasonably well for four decades.
Some in industry have told Undercurrent News that they fear pressures to add more "flexibility" could allow political considerations to undermine science-driven decision-making currently enshrined in the bill, which forms the basis for most federal fishing regulation in US waters.
