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Sturgeon Conservation and Sustainability Act of 2025

To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to allow certain activities to be conducted with respect to sturgeon held in captivity or in a controlled environment, and for other purposes.

Introduced Jun 17, 2025

Latest action (Jul 22, 2025) Subcommittee Hearings Held

Referred to
Natural Resources Committee
Policy area
Animals
Issues
Climate & Energy
Legislative subjects (4)
AquacultureEndangered and threatened speciesFishesMarine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary

This bill amends the Endangered Species Act to exempt sturgeon and their offspring from certain protections if they are legally held in captivity or controlled environments. The exemption applies from the date the bill is enacted until the sturgeon are intentionally released into the wild. Anyone holding such captive sturgeon must be able to demonstrate they qualify for the exemption and must maintain records and documentation as required by the Secretary of the Interior, though these requirements should not unnecessarily duplicate existing regulatory requirements under the Endangered Species Act. The bill allows farming and other activities involving captive sturgeon without triggering the standard endangered species protections that would otherwise apply to these protected fish.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
5 cosponsors

Actions (4)
  1. Jul 22, 2025 Subcommittee Hearings Held · house
  2. Jul 16, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries. · house
  3. Jun 17, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. · house
  4. Jun 17, 2025 Introduced in House

More bills on these subjects (8)

Other bills that carry the most legislative subjects in common with this one (topical discovery — distinct from the procedural related bills above).

  • S 2089 — Sturgeon Conservation and Sustainability Act (shares 4 subjects)
  • HR 6893 — Chesapeake Bay Watershed Advancement for Training, Education, Restoration, and Science (WATERS) Act (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 5342 — Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 191 — Inflation Reduction Act of 2025 (shares 3 subjects)
  • S 3738 — MORE WATER Act (shares 2 subjects)
  • HR 9770 — Continuing Appropriations Act, 2027 (shares 2 subjects)
  • HR 3831 — Florida Safe Seas Act of 2025 (shares 2 subjects)
  • HR 4294 — MAWS Act of 2026 (shares 2 subjects)

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 2089 — Sturgeon Conservation and Sustainability Act · Introduced Jun 17, 2025 · Cong. 119 94%
  • HR 1150 — SPEAR Act of 2025 · Introduced Feb 7, 2025 · Cong. 119 80%
  • HR 4850 — Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2025 · Introduced Aug 1, 2025 · Cong. 119 77%
  • HR 1894 — FISH Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 6, 2025 · Cong. 119 75%
  • HR 102 — American Sovereignty and Species Protection Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 74%
  • HR 180 — Endangered Species Transparency and Reasonableness Act of 2025 · Introduced Jul 22, 2025 · Cong. 119 74%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jun 17, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

June 17, 2025

Mr. Fine introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

A BILL

To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to allow certain activities to be conducted with respect to sturgeon held in captivity or in a controlled environment, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Sturgeon Conservation and Sustainability Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. STURGEON HELD IN CAPTIVITY OR CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENTS.

Section 9(b) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1538(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(3) Sturgeon.—

“(A) In general.—Subsection (a)(1) and section 7(a)(2) shall not apply to—

“(i) a sturgeon farmed that is legally held in captivity or in a controlled environment as of the date of enactment of this paragraph, until such time as the sturgeon is intentionally returned to a wild state; or

“(ii) progeny of a sturgeon described in clause

(i), until such time as the progeny is intentionally returned to a wild state.

“(B) Demonstration; requirements.—

“(i) In general.—Any person holding any sturgeon or progeny described in subparagraph (A) shall—

“(I) be able to demonstrate that the sturgeon or progeny qualifies as a sturgeon or progeny, as applicable, described in that subparagraph; and

“(II) maintain and submit to the Secretary, on request of the Secretary, such inventories, documentation, and records as the Secretary may, by regulation, require as being reasonably appropriate to carry out the purposes of this paragraph.

“(ii) Requirements.—Requirements described in clause (i)(II) shall not unnecessarily duplicate the requirements of other rules and regulations promulgated by the Secretary under this Act.”. <all>

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