Alan Risenhoover, Director

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New Mandates for Improving the Management of
Marine Fisheries in the United States

• Alan Risenhoover, Director
• NOAA Fisheries Office of Sustainable Fisheries

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Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act (MSA)

• Governs marine fisheries management in U.S.
  federal waters
• Enacted in 1976
• Amended in 1996 and 2007 (MSRA)
• Original Goals
• Conserve and manage U.S. fisheries
• Phase out foreign fishing, develop domestic
  capacity
• Provide stakeholders a role in management
  (Councils)

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Goals of 1996 Amendments

• Achieve optimum yield (OY) in all fisheries
• Social, economic, and ecological considerations
• End overfishing
• Rebuild overfished fisheries
• Minimize bycatch
• Protect fisheries habitat

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Goals of 2007 Amendments (MSRA)

• End and prevent overfishing
• Improve science and its role in decision-making
• Promote market-based management approaches
• Promote international cooperation to address IUU
  fishing and bycatch of protected living marine
  resources

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Status of U.S. FisheriesWhere are we now?
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What is the difference?

• Overfishing