National Ocean Council Committee Designates Shrimp as an “At-Risk” Species
On Friday, the Federal Register published Notice of the National Ocean Council (NOC) Committee’s finalized principles for determining seafood species at risk of Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing and seafood fraud, as well as a list of “at-risk” species developed using these principles. Both the list of principles and the list of species are intended to inform the development […]
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Southern Shrimp Alliance Requests that National Ocean Council Committee Designate Shrimp an “At Risk” Species
Yesterday, the Southern Shrimp Alliance submitted formal comments to the National Ocean Council (NOC) Committee regarding “principles” to be used in determining which seafood species are “at risk” for Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing and seafood fraud. In those comments, the Southern Shrimp Alliance observed that the “possible principles” identified in the request for comments published in the Federal […]