Anchorage, AK — February 25, 2016 — U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan chaired a Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard hearing, coined, “Magnuson-Stevens Act at 40,” that examined the law’s effect on directing the country’s fisheries.
Senator Sullivan stated, “As I have mentioned at this Committee many times before, Alaska’s fisheries are by far the largest in the nation…Through the MSA’s guiding principles—the ten national standards, as applied by the eight Regional Fishery Management Councils who manage the fisheries off America’s coasts in a science-based and open and transparent stakeholder-driven process —the MSA has resulted in the world’s best managed fisheries, particularly in Alaska.”
The legislation is named after Alaskan U.S Senator Ted Stevens. Senator Sullivan also examined issues that may improve the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA), which was previously reauthorized in 2006.