Federal Court Rejects National Fisheries Institute’s Challenge to Seafood Import Monitoring Program
“In the end, the Rule weathers the storm of Plaintiffs’ various challenges.” This (ill-timed) metaphor concludes the decision issued on Monday by the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia rejecting the National Fisheries Institute’s (NFI) efforts to invalidate the Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP). In reality, as discussed extensively in the Court’s 67-page opinion, there wasn’t […]
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Senate Shrimp Supporters Move to Protect U.S. Shrimpers from Illegal Imports
SSA thanks and congratulates Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS), powerful Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, for once again championing the best interests of the domestic shrimp industry by including a provision in his FY 2018 Appropriations bill to ensure that the federal Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP) will cover all shrimp imports. This provision was also shepherded by the Appropriations […]
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Solid Senate Support for Combatting Illegal Shrimp Imports
A bipartisan group of eleven powerful U.S. Senators has gone to bat in a big way for the domestic shrimp industry and U.S. shrimp consumers and against illegal shrimp imports by expressing their support for the full implementation of the new U.S. Seafood Import Monitoring Program. Their support was expressed in an April 27, 2017, letter to Department of Commerce […]
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Seafood Traceability Senate Letter 8-30-16
Shrimp-State Senators Champion Need for Traceability of Shrimp Imports There follows a very important letter issued by 8 powerful Gulf and South Atlantic coast Senators urging the President to implement a secure seafood traceability program that will provide a highly effective tool in combatting fraud and IUU fishing associated with imported shrimp. Such fraud and IUU fishing has severely […]