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SRES 610 109th Congress Senate International Affairs Environmental Protection Fishery agreements Fishery management Fishing boats Habitat conservation Marine and coastal resources, fisheries Marine ecology Marine resources conservation Overfishing Public Lands and Natural Resources Sustainable fisheries United Nations

A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the United States should promote the adoption of, and the United Nations should adopt, a resolution at its October meeting to protect the living resources of the high seas from destructive, illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing practices.

Introduced: September 29, 2006 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 7 steps
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Passed House
Passed Senate
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Became law
Dec 6, 2006
Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR 12/7/2006 S11388-11389)
Dec 6, 2006
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR 12/7/2006 S11388-11389)
Dec 6, 2006
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR 12/7/2006 S11388-11389)
Dec 6, 2006
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR 12/7/2006 S11388-11389)
Sep 30, 2006
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10757-10758)
Sep 29, 2006
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10758)
Sep 29, 2006
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States: (1) should continue to demonstrate international leadership regarding the conservation and sustainable use of high seas living marine resources by promoting adoption of a resolution at this year's U.N. General Assembly calling on all nations to prohibit destructive fishing activity in areas where there are no applicable conservation or management measures or in areas with no applicable international fishery management organizations or agreements until conservation and management measures consistent with the Magnuson-Stevens Act, the United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement, and other relevant instruments are implemented; and (2) calls upon U.N. member nations to adopt a resolution to protect the living resources of the high seas from destructive fishing practices.

What's happening now December 6, 2006

Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR 12/7/2006 S11388-11389)

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