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Congress·Passed House·3 months ago

Cormorant Control Rules: Restore and Update Permits for Fish Farms

Also known as: Cormorant Relief Act of 2025

Legislative Progress

✓ Filed
✓ Review
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President

Key Points

  • Tells the Interior Department to bring back an older rule that lets certain people kill double-crested cormorants that are damaging fish at aquaculture sites.
  • Expands where and who can use the rule, including managers of private lakes and ponds, and adds states like California, Colorado, and others listed in the bill.
  • Updates the old rule’s wording, recordkeeping, and how it lines up with other federal laws, and removes an old expiration date so it doesn’t automatically end.
  • Requires the Interior Department to renew the rule at least once every 5 years, so it stays active unless changed.
  • Says the Interior Department still has to follow major environmental and wildlife-protection laws when carrying out this rule.
EnvironmentAgriculture

Milestones

5 milestones16 actions
Dec 10, 2025Senate

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Dec 9, 2025House

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Dec 9, 2025House

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5076-5077)

Dec 9, 2025

Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5076-5077)

Dec 9, 2025House

DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2293.

Source Information

Document Type

Congressional Bill

Official Title

Cormorant Relief Act of 2025

Bill NumberHR 2293
Congress119th Congress
ChamberHouse of Representatives
Latest ActionReceived in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Sponsor

Cosponsors

(3)
D: 1R: 2

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