Federal law currently requires the National Marine Fisheries Service, the government agency that manages ocean fish and protects marine wildlife, to write new rules by 2028 aimed at keeping endangered Atlantic large whales from getting tangled in lobster and Jonah crab fishing gear. Those rules must require lobster and crab fishermen to use gear technologies, both existing and new, that lower the chance of whale entanglement where appropriate. The bill pushes that deadline back seven years, from 2028 to 2035, so the agency would have until then to issue the rules. The summary doesn't say what the rules will contain beyond what current law already requires, so fishermen in these fisheries and the agency would simply have more time before new gear requirements are due.