Incorporating climate science
Title I — Climate-Ready Fisheries
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(a) Council training program Section 302(k)(1) (16 U.S.C. 1852(k)(1)) is amended— (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (C) through (H) as subparagraphs (D) through (I), respectively; (2) by redesignating subparagraph (I) as subparagraph (K); (3) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following: (C) climate change and relevant impacts of climate change on fisheries health, range, and other factors that would affect the conservation and management of a stock of fish;; (4) by striking and after the semicolon at the end of subparagraph (I), as so redesignated; and (5) by inserting after subparagraph (I), as so redesignated, the following: (J) ecosystem-based fishery management; and. (b) Fisheries research Section 404 (16 U.S.C. 1881c) is amended— (1) in subsection (a), by inserting, on changes in geographic range, spatial distribution, and productivity of a fishery or interrelated fisheries, after management; and (2) in subsection (c)(1), by inserting changes in geographic range, spatial distribution, and productivity of a fishery or interrelated fisheries, after degradation,.