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Executive Order 13449 of October 20, 2007 

Protection of Striped Bass and Red Drum Fish Populations 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 

laws of the United States of America, to assist in ensuring faithful execution 

of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the 

Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act, and the Atlantic 

Striped Bass Conservation Act (chapters 38, 71, and 71A of title 16, United 

States Code), and to conserve striped bass and red drum fish, it is hereby 

ordered as follows: 

Section 1. Policy. It shall be the policy of the United States to conserve 

striped bass and red drum for the recreational, economic, and environmental 

benefit of the present and future generations of Americans, based on sound 

science and in cooperation with State, territorial, local, and tribal governments, the private sector, and others, as appropriate. 

Sec. 2. Implementation. (a) To carry out the policy set forth in section 

1, the Secretary of Commerce shall: 

(i) encourage, as appropriate, management under Federal, State, territorial, 

tribal, and local laws that supports the policy of conserving striped bass 

and red drum, including State designation as gamefish where the State 

determines appropriate under applicable law; 

(ii) revise current regulations, as appropriate, to include prohibiting the 

sale of striped bass and red drum caught within the Exclusive Economic 

Zone of the United States off the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico; 

(iii) periodically review the status of the striped bass and red drum populations within waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and: 

(A) take such actions within the authority of the Secretary of Commerce 

as may be appropriate to carry out the policy set forth in section 1 

of this order; and 

(B) recommend to the President such actions as the Secretary may deem 

appropriate to advance the policy set forth in section 1 that are not 

within the authority of the Secretary. 

(b) Nothing in this order shall preclude or restrict the production, possession, 

or sale of striped bass or red drum fish that have been produced by aquaculture. 

(c) The Secretary of Commerce shall implement subsections 2(a)(i) and (iii), 

insofar as they relate to Atlantic striped bass, jointly with the Secretary 

of the Interior, as appropriate. 

Sec. 3. Definitions. As used in this order: 

(a) ‘‘Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States’’ means the marine 

area of the United States as defined in Presidential Proclamation 5030 of 

March 10, 1983, with, for purposes of this order, the inner boundary of 

that zone being a line coterminous with the seaward boundary of each 

of the coastal States; 

(b) ‘‘red drum’’ means the species Sciaenops ocellatus; and 

(c) ‘‘striped bass’’ means the species Morone saxatilis. 


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Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) This order shall be implemented in a manner 

consistent with applicable law (including but not limited to interstate compacts to which the United States has consented by law, treaties and other 

international agreements to which the United States is a party, treaties 

to which the United States and an Indian tribe are parties, and laws of 

the United States conferring rights on Indian tribes) and subject to the 

availability of appropriations. 

(b) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect 

the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating 

to budget, administrative, and legislative proposals. 

(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, 

substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against 

the United States, its departments, agencies, instrumentalities, entities, officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

October 20, 2007. 

[FR Doc. 07–5299 

Filed 10–23–07; 8:50 am] 

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