{"id":65,"date":"2014-04-30T14:09:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T21:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marineconservationalliance.org\/test\/?page_id=65"},"modified":"2014-10-02T15:06:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T22:06:14","slug":"msa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marineconservationalliance.org\/test\/whatwedo\/policy-and-law\/msa\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnuson-Stevens Act Reauthorization"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA) is the most important law the United States has ever passed regarding fishing. The Marine Conservation Alliance regards Magnuson-Stevens as a success and we believe it should be reauthorized, as currently written, with minimal amendments.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Magnuson-Stevens was originally enacted in 1976. The most recent iteration, enacted in 2007, adopted approaches like science-based annual catch limits, conservation of fish habitat, and the Precautionary Principle that have served our nation well in sustainable fisheries management.<\/p>\n

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MSA created 8 regional fishery management councils responsible for the fisheries that require conservation and management in their region.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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CLICK HERE<\/a><\/span> to read MCA\u2019s comments<\/strong> on the Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA) Reauthorization Staff Working Draft that was circulated April 3, 2014.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE<\/span><\/a> to read the article \u201cFinding Win-Win Outcomes for Conservation and Utilization<\/strong>,\u201d co-written my Marine Conservation Alliance and Nossaman LLP, that was published in Westlaw Journal Environmental<\/em> in May 2014.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA) is the most important law the United States has ever passed regarding fishing. The Marine Conservation Alliance regards Magnuson-Stevens as a success and we believe it should be reauthorized, as currently written, with minimal amendments. Magnuson-Stevens … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":130,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-65","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marineconservationalliance.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marineconservationalliance.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marineconservationalliance.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marineconservationalliance.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marineconservationalliance.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.marineconservationalliance.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/www.marineconservationalliance.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions\/335"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marineconservationalliance.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marineconservationalliance.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}