The Legislative Committee is a standing committee of the Council (all members are also Council members). Dr. David Hanson is the Chair of the Legislative Committee, which also includes Herb Pollard, Marc Gorelnik, Rich Lincoln, and Christa Svensson.
The Legislative Committee tracks Federal (and, rarely, state) legislation that affects fishery management off the West Coast. The committee drafts letters responding to Congressional requests for comment.
Useful links:
- House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
- Govtrack.us
Legislative correspondence
Recent Legislative Committee reports
- December 2019 letter to NMFS on Section 201 of the Modernizing Recreational Fisheries Management Act
- Sept 2019 letter to Cantwell on disaster relief bill
- Sept 2019 letter to Rep Bishop on forage fish, drift gillnet bills
- July 2019 letter to Sen. Cantwell on Forage Fish Protection Act
- Nov 2018 letter to Senators Cantwell and Harris on aquaculture bill
- Nov 2018 letter to Rep Schrader on groundfish trawl buyback loan
- Feb 2018 letter to Rep Schrader on MSA reauthorization
- Feb 2018 letter to Sen. Cantwell on MSA reauthorization
- Nov 2017 letter to Rep Panetta on FISH Act
- Nov 2017 letter to Reps Huffman and Thompson on California drought bills
- Nov 2017 letter to Rep. Calvert on FISH Act
- Nov 2017 letter to Rep. Calvert on the FISH Act
- April 2017 letter to Rep Herrera-Beutler on MSA reauthorization
- Oct 2016 letter to Reps Farr and Hunter on California Seamounts Act
- Sept 2016 letter to President Obama on national monuments
- July 2016 letter to House Committee on Nat’l Resources on Ensuring Access to Pacific Fisheries Act
- May 2016 letter to Sen Murray on California water bill
- May 2016 letter to Reps Huffman and Thompson on California water bill
- April 2016 letter to Sen. Allen on California SB 1114 (drift gillnets)
- December 2015 letter to Huffman, Thompson on CA drought legislation
- Dec 2015 letter to Reps Huffman and Thompson on California drought bills
- Sept 2015 letter to Reps Huffman and Thompson on California drought bills
- June 2015 letter to Rep Herrera-Beutler on salmon predation bill
- June 2015 letter to Rep Herrera-Beutler on Dungeness crab
- March 2015 letter to Reps Bishop and Grijalva on IUU fishing bill
- Agenda Item I.1.a, Supplemental Legislative Committee Report 1
- Sept 2019 letter to Cantwell on disaster relief bill
- Agenda Item C.2.a, Supplemental LC Report 1
- Agenda Item D.3.a, Supplemental Legislative Committee Report 1
- Agenda Item D.3.a, Supplemental REVISED Legislative Committee Report 1
- Agenda Item I.1.a, Supplemental LC Report
- Agenda Item F.2.a, Supplemental Legislative Committee Report 1
- Agenda Item C.6.a, Supplemental LC Report 1
- Agenda Item H.1.a, Supplemental Legislative Committee Report 1
- Agenda Item C.4.a, Supplemental LC Report 1
- Agenda Item G.1.a, Supplemental Legislative Committee Report 1
- H1a_Sup_LC_Rpt1_SEPT2017BB
- C3a_Sup_LC_Rpt_JUN2017BB_FINAL
- Agenda Item C.2.a, Supplemental Legislative Committee Report
- Legislative Committee
- LC_Agenda_SEPT2016BB
- G1a_Sup_LC_Rpt_SEPT2016BB
- C4a_Sup_LC_Rpt_APR2016BB
- Agenda Item F.2.a, Supplemental Legislative Committee Report
- Agenda Item C.2.a, Supplemental Legislative Committee Report
- Legislative Committee
- Agenda Item F.1.a, Supplemental Legislative Committee Report
- Legislative Committee Agenda March 2015