# 116-hr-2236: Forage Fish Conservation Act

116-hr-2236, Forage Fish Conservation Act, is a 116th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-6] (D-MI); status Subcommittee Hearings Held. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 116-hr-2236
- Congress: 116
- Title: Forage Fish Conservation Act
- Status: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- Introduced: 2019-04-10
- Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-6] (D-MI)
- Cosponsors: 20
- Policy area: Animals
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

Forage Fish Conservation Act This bill addresses the management and conservation of forage fish. (A forage fish is any fish at a low trophic level that contributes significantly to the diets of other fish, marine mammals, or birds and serves as a conduit for energy transfer to species at a higher trophic level.) The Department of Commerce must establish guidelines to assist regional fishery management councils in (1) developing a list of unmanaged forage fish areas and prohibiting the development of any new forage fish fisheries until the potential impacts of such fisheries have been assessed; and (2) setting annual catch limits for forage fish fisheries that assess, specify, and reduce such limits by the diet needs of other fish species and marine wildlife. The bill adds shad (American shad and hickory shad) and river herring (blueback herring and alewife) to the list of managed stocks for the New England and Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council.

## Cosponsors (20)

- Rep. Mast, Brian J. [R-FL-21] (R-FL), 2019-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-8] (D-PA), 2019-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Long, Billy [R-MO-7] (R-MO), 2019-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Upton, Fred [R-MI-6] (R-MI), 2019-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2] (D-CA), 2019-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lowenthal, Alan S. [D-CA-47] (D-CA), 2019-04-12T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1] (R-PA), 2019-04-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2] (D-MS), 2019-04-18T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] (D-IL), 2019-04-18T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-1] (D-HI), 2019-04-18T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] (D-OR), 2019-04-18T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Rooney, Francis [R-FL-19] (R-FL), 2019-05-14T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Steube, W. Gregory [R-FL-17] (R-FL), 2019-06-12T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Veasey, Marc A. [D-TX-33] (D-TX), 2019-06-18T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Palazzo, Steven M. [R-MS-4] (R-MS), 2019-06-25T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Scott, Austin [R-GA-8] (R-GA), 2019-07-25T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Carter, Earl L. "Buddy" [R-GA-1] (R-GA), 2019-09-25T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Hudson, Richard [R-NC-9] (R-NC), 2019-10-11T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Suozzi, Thomas R. [D-NY-3] (D-NY), 2020-02-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Rice, Kathleen M. [D-NY-4] (D-NY), 2020-04-23T00:00:00.000Z

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## Sources
- [116-hr-2236 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2236)

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