All Roll Calls
Yes: 360 • No: 57
HR1917119th Congress
Great Lakes Mass Marking Program Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-6]
Passed House
Summary
Creates the Great Lakes Mass Marking Program to mass-mark hatchery-produced fish across the Great Lakes basin so managers can track hatchery fish, improve restoration, and support regional fisheries.
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- Tribal, recreational, and commercial fisheries: Provides data intended to support and improve the economic status of Tribal, recreational, and commercial fisheries in the Great Lakes.
- Fishery managers and agencies: Requires sharing of tagging and recovery data to increase understanding of management outcomes, meet restoration and fish community objectives, help balance predators and prey, and evaluate habitat restoration efforts.
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and hatcheries: Authorizes the Director to buy equipment and tags, process and share data, run tagging and tag-recovery operations, and hire additional personnel as needed while collaborating with federal, state, and Tribal partners and lake committees.
*Authorizes $2.7 million per year for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 to carry out the program.*
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Fish tagging to aid Great Lakes fisheries
If enacted, the Fish and Wildlife Service would start a program to mass mark hatchery fish in the Great Lakes. It would buy tags and equipment, run tagging and tag recovery, process and share data, and hire staff. The Service would work with Federal, State, and Tribal fish agencies, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission’s lake committees, and plan signatories. Data would help track results, balance predators and prey, support Tribal, recreational, and commercial fisheries, and check habitat work. The bill would authorize $2.7 million each year for fiscal years 2026 through 2030. The program would start upon enactment.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-6]
MI • D
Cosponsors
Rep. Huizenga, Bill [R-MI-4]
MI • R
Sponsored 3/6/2025
Rep. Walberg, Tim [R-MI-5]
MI • R
Sponsored 3/6/2025
Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1]
PA • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Rep. Bergman, Jack [R-MI-1]
MI • R
Sponsored 4/7/2025
Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
OH • D
Sponsored 5/5/2025
Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5]
IL • D
Sponsored 5/19/2025
Roll Call Votes
house vote • 7/22/2025
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended
Yes: 360 • No: 57