1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Fishery Failures: Urgently Needed Disaster Declarations Act . 2. Fishery resource disaster relief Section 312(a) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act ( 16 U.S.C. 1861a(a) ) is amended to read as follows: (a) Fishery resource disaster relief (1) Definitions In this subsection: (A) Allowable cause The term allowable cause means a natural cause, discrete anthropogenic cause, or undetermined cause. (B) Anthropogenic cause The term anthropogenic cause means an anthropogenic event, such as an oil spill or spillway opening— (i) that could not have been addressed or prevented by fishery management measures; and (ii) that is otherwise beyond the control of fishery managers to mitigate through conservation and management measures, including regulatory restrictions imposed as a result of judicial action or to protect human health or marine animals, plants, or habitats. (C) Fishery resource disaster The term fishery resource disaster means a disaster that is determined by the Secretary in accordance with this subsection and— (i) is an unexpected decrease in fish stock biomass or other change that results in significant loss of access to the fishery resource, which may include loss of fishing vessels and gear for a substantial period of time and results in significant revenue or subsistence loss due to an allowable cause; and (ii) does not include— (I) reasonably predictable, foreseeable, and recurrent fishery cyclical variations in species distribution or stock abundance; or (II) reductions in fishing opportunities resulting from conservation and management measures taken pursuant to this Act. (D) Indian tribe The term Indian Tribe has the meaning given such term in section 102 of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 ( 25 U.S.C. 5130 ), and the term Tribal means of or pertaining to such an Indian tribe. (E) Natural cause The term natural cause — (i) means a weather, climatic, hazard, or biology-related event, such as— (I) a hurricane