Great Lakes Fishery Research Reauthorization Act

This bill, titled the Great Lakes Fishery Research Reauthorization Act, would reauthorize federal funding to monitor, assess, and research the Great Lakes Basin. Specifically, it amends the authorization in the 2020 Further Consolidated Appropriations Act to extend the period during which funding for Great Lakes fishery research activities can be authorized from 2025 to 2030. There are no new programmatic provisions or funding amounts specified in the text provided; the bill simply extends the expiration date for the existing Great Lakes research activities. In short, the bill ensures continued federal support for long-term monitoring and scientific work on the Great Lakes’ fisheries and related ecological health through 2030, relying on the existing program framework established in 2020.