1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Fluke Fairness Act of 2018 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Summer flounder is an important economic fish stock for commercial and recreational fishermen across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic United States. (2) The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act ( 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) was reauthorized in 2006 and instituted annual catch limits and accountability measures for important fish stocks. (3) That reauthorization prompted fishery managers to look at alternate management schemes to rebuild depleted stocks like summer flounder. (4) Summer flounder occur in both State and Federal waters and are managed through a joint fishery management plan between the Council and the Commission. (5) The Council and the Commission decided that each State’s recreational and commercial harvest limits for summer flounder would be based upon landings in previous years. (6) These historical landings were based on flawed data sets that no longer provide fairness or flexibility for fisheries managers to allocate resources based on the best science. (7) This allocation mechanism resulted in an uneven split among the States along the East Coast which is problematic. (8) The fishery management plan for summer flounder does not account for regional changes in the location of the fluke stock even though the stock has moved further to the north and changes in effort by anglers along the East Coast. (9) The States have been locked in a management system based on data that occurred over a decade ago and the summer flounder stock is not being managed using the best available science and modern fishery management techniques. (10) It is in the interest of the Federal Government to establish a new fishery management plan for summer flounder that is based on current geographic, scientific, and economic realities. 3. Definitions In this Act: (1) Commission The term Commission means the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. (2) Council The term Council means the