President Donald Trump has signed Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler’s bill into law permanently extending a decades-old fishery management agreement.
The tri-state agreement with the states of Washington, Oregon and California cooperatively manages the West Coast crab fishery in federal waters, according to a press release from Herrera Beutler’s office.
The agreement was first authorized in 1998 by Congress, but expired without a replacement in 2016. The bill aimed to make the existing authority permanent.
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