Forage Fish Conservation Act of 2024

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] [Congressional Bills 118th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 9821 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 118th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 9821 To improve the management of forage fish. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 25, 2024 Mrs. Dingell (for herself and Mr. Mast) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To improve the management of forage fish. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Forage Fish Conservation Act of 2024''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Section 2(a) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following: ``(14) Forage fish are generally small to intermediate- sized species, occurring in schools or dense aggregations, and function as a main pathway for energy to flow from phyto- and zooplankton to higher trophic level predators, including tuna, Alask…