Commission management duties

(a) Overseeing sub-Basin fishery management (1) In general The Commission shall oversee the management plans and the implementation and evaluation of the effectiveness of management actions of the 6 Mississippi River sub-basins described in paragraph (2) to provide for the long-term biologic and economic sustainability of interjurisdictional fisheries in the Mississippi River Basin. (2) Sub-basins The 6 Mississippi River sub-basins are the Arkansas-Red-White, the Lower Mississippi, the Missouri, the Ohio, the Tennessee-Cumberland, and the Upper Mississippi. (b) Commission management plan (1) In general As the framework for a management plan for the Commission, the Commission shall adopt and use the MICRA Joint Strategic Plan for Management of Mississippi River Fisheries, which— (A) was adopted and approved by 28 States in the Mississippi River Basin; and (B) establishes a formal commitment to a set of strategic procedures for a coordinated, inter-agency approach to cooperatively managing self-sustaining interjurisdictional fishery resources in the Mississippi River Basin. (2) Best methods, practices, and conditions The Commission shall work to research and implement the best scientific methods, best practices, and best conditions to bring about the conservation and sustainable management of interjurisdictional fisheries in the Mississippi River Basin. (3) Strategies to control invasive species The Commission shall— (A) develop and coordinate inter-agency and inter-basin strategies to prevent the introduction and control the abundance and spread of invasive carps and other prioritized aquatic invasive species within the Mississippi River Basin; and (B) draft and recommend to the appropriate management agencies strategies and approaches for dealing with the conservation of interjurisdictional fisheries and the management and control of aquatic invasive species within the Mississippi River Basin. (4) Consultation and advice The Commission shall consult with and advise the pertinent administrative agencies party to the Commission regarding problems connected with the fisheries in the Mississippi River Basin and recommend the adoption of such regulations as it determines advisable. (5) Reexamination and evaluation of joint strategic plan Not later than 30 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Commission, in consultation with the Secretary, shall— (A) reexamine and evaluate the Joint Strategic Plan described in paragraph (1) to— (i) determine which portions of the Plan have been completed and which need updating; and (ii) add new objectives, if any, to the Plan; and (B) issue a report to Congress on the status of interjurisdictional fishery populations and the state of the ongoing work to eradicate, manage, and control aquatic invasive species in the Mississippi River Basin in accordance with the management plan of the Commission.