Magnuson-Stevens rewrite would damage our federal fishery management system

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Editor's note: The folloioing is adapted from the written testimony of Shannon Carroll prepared for the Nov. 16, 2021, hearing of U.S. House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife. The subcommittee considered a bill sponsored byChair Jared Huffman, D-California, that ivoiild overhaul the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA), the nation's top law governing marine fisheries. Carroll, who leads Alaska public affairs for Seattle-based Trident Seafoods Corpg:, comments on the bill in his testimony. Carroll is a former member of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council's Advisonj Panel.Despite what may be the best of intentions, as currently drafted H.R. 4690, the Sustaining America's Fisheries for theFuture Act, poses significant risks to our world-leading federal fisheries management system.