Fishing Magnuson Act

First in 1976 and amended the preservation of the Magnuson-Stevens fisheries management act adopted several times since then, many aspects of fisheries management in the United States. The Bill is named after former Senator Warren Magnuson in Washington and Ted Stevens of Alaska. Right of FunctionThe several specific laws on Fisheries adopted the United States. This includes named to deny foreign fishing economic areas and the use of driftnets on a large scale, except in the designated economic zones.Fishery created right CouncilsThe eight regional management advisory councils: Gulf of Mexico, Pacific, Pacific North West Pacific.ConsiderationsThe acceptable research fishing right created new England, Atlantic, South Atlantic, Caribbean regulation. This included developing a plan to identify the types and approximate number of each species in fisheries and observe the effects of harvesting of fish on the ecosystem.