SB186

Provides for the menhaden fishery. (8/1/26) (OR SEE FISC NOTE SD RV)

Introduced·2/26/26
Ment Text

Louisiana SB186 sets an annual limit of 315 million pounds for the menhaden fishery in Louisiana waters and maintains the existing restriction on.

Louisiana SB186 amends the menhaden fishery regulations by imposing an annual limit of 315 million pounds on the commercial catch of menhaden in Louisiana territorial waters. The bill also retains the existing restriction that anyone legally taking menhaden must not have more than five percent, by weight, of any species of fish other than menhaden and herring-like species in their possession. This legislation aims to manage the menhaden fishery sustainably within Louisiana's waters.

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History

Mar 9

Senate

Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.

Feb 26

Senate

Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.