Quantifying Uncertainty and Action to Help Optimize Growth of Shellfish Act of 2025

This bill would require the Secretary of Commerce to set up an East Coast Bivalve Research Task Force within 90 days. The task force would have 16 to 21 members, including federal agency staff, fishery council and state agency representatives, Indian Tribe representatives, industry members, and academic experts, and would be chaired by a NOAA representative. It would review research on clams, oysters, mussels, and scallops, including quahogs, and identify research gaps and solutions to declining harvests. It must issue a public interim report within 1 year and a final report within 2 years, and form work groups on quahogs and on climate change impacts. Members would serve without pay but could receive travel expenses.

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Sponsors

• Sheldon Whitehouse Democrat sponsor
• 2 cosponsors