July 15, 2024 — U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) has introduced an amendment to incorporate the Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvest (FISH) Act into the annual funding bill for the U.S. Department of Defense.
The FISH Act would create a blacklist of vessels with a history of conducting illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities. Fishing vessels on the list would be banned from entering U.S. waters, and the legislation also would require the U.S. Coast Guard to increase at-sea inspections of vessels it suspects may be engaged in IUU fishing.