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S 1008 116th Congress Senate Animals Administrative law and regulatory procedures Agricultural trade Animal protection and human-animal relationships Fishes Hunting and fishing Marine and coastal resources, fisheries Seafood Trade restrictions

Sustainable Shark Fisheries and Trade Act of 2019

Introduced: April 3, 2019 See on congress.gov
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Apr 3, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Apr 3, 2019
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Sustainable Shark Fisheries and Trade Act of 2019

This bill addresses the conservation and management of sharks.

The bill prohibits the importation into the United States of shark products from a nation that does not have measures to provide for the conservation and management of sharks and measures to prohibit shark finning (the removal of a shark's fins, including the tail, and discarding the remainder of the shark at sea) that are comparable to those of the United States. The bill includes exceptions to this prohibition for law enforcement, subsistence purposes, education, conservation, or scientific research.

The Department of Commerce must certify nations with protections for sharks that are comparable to those of the United States.

Commerce must revise its regulations to include rays and skates as species that are subject to the Seafood Import Monitoring Program. (The Seafood Import Monitoring Program has data reporting and recordkeeping requirements for imported fish or fish products entering U.S. commerce.)

What's happening now April 3, 2019

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 788 Related bill Sustainable Shark Fisheries and Trade Act
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Democratic 1 Republican 3
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Cassidy, Bill
Louisiana · Apr 3, 2019
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Murkowski, Lisa
Alaska · Apr 3, 2019
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Sullivan, Dan
Alaska · Apr 3, 2019
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Whitehouse, Sheldon
Rhode Island · Apr 3, 2019
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1008: Sustainable Shark Fisheries and Trade Act of 2019. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1008/
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"S. 1008: Sustainable Shark Fisheries and Trade Act of 2019." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1008/.
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S. 1008, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1008/.
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