The Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvests Act of 2025 requires the Commerce Secretary to create and maintain a comprehensive list of foreign vessels and fleets engaged in illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing activities, including those that exceed catch limits, undermine conservation measures, or fish illegally in U.S. waters. The bill imposes visa sanctions on foreign individuals who own or control these blacklisted vessels, making them inadmissible to the United States and revoking any existing visas they may hold. An expanded interagency working group will develop strategies to combat illegal fishing and forced labor in fishing operations, with a mandate to create recommendations for better federal-state coordination within three years. Congress authorizes $10 million annually through 2030 to implement the vessel listing program, while ensuring the new law works alongside existing federal authorities rather than overriding them.
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