Senate Passes FISH Act to Combat Illegal Fishing

0:00It's March 31st. I'm Cory with the story. This is Anchorage News today, driven by AI. The Fighting Foreign Illegal Sea Food Harvest Act, or Fish Act, just cleared the U.S. Senate on March 22nd. This bill cracks down on illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing by blacklisting bad actor vessels and barring them from American ports and waters. Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan co-sponsored the measure, putting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in charge of building that blacklist. While the Coast Guard steps up enforcement, Sullivan highlighted how Chinese and Russian trollar fleets dodge harvest rules, endangering Alaska's fish populations in coastal towns. He called them out for often relying on slave labor, which undercuts U.S. fishermen who play by sustainable rules. The act ramps up Coast Guard tools to combat these operations and supports tougher international deals and treaties. Now that it's through the Senate, this push signals real momentum towards safeguarding

1:01our fisheries from global cheats.