Restoring American Saltwater Angling and Recreation

This executive order directs the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the NOAA Administrator, to modernize recreational fisheries data collection, deploy mobile applications for mandatory and voluntary electronic catch reporting, and review Magnuson-Stevens National Standards guidelines within 180 days. It directs the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce and the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works to initiate rescission of regulations burdening boaters and anglers within 30 days, transition permits to multi-year terms with a presumption of renewal, and deploy a unified interagency permit portal within 1 year. It also directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a Federal Outer Continental Shelf Reef-in-Place Program within 60 days to convert decommissioned offshore structures, excluding offshore wind infrastructure, into artificial reefs, and establishes an Interagency Shark and Pinniped Depredation Task Force.

Recreational anglers and for-hire fishing operators to Report recreational catch-and-effort data electronically through standardized federal mobile applications, including mandatory reporting for for-hire operators (unclear).

No known legal challenges.