SOUTHERN SHRIMP ALLIANCE

MAR · Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries

Federal legislative and regulatory activities pertaining to the conservation, management and research of US shrimp fisheries and bycatch. Funding for shrimp fishing effort research, FDA testing USDA shrimp procurement, sec. 609 sea turtle enforcement, S-K funding, Legislation to provide more H-2B visas for shrimp fishing vessels and processors, legislation to address NOAA National Seafood Strategy and seafood marketing funding. Legislation to provide compensation to fishermen for impacts from offshore wind energy development. Efforts to avoid impacts of offshore wind energy development on the shrimp fisheries. Legislation addressing IUU fishing, seafood fraud and forced labor. Legislation to direct shrimp duties to fund FDA testing and USDA procurement, to require FDA to destroy contaminated seafood imports, to expand fishery disaster assistance to include economic causes and to streamline assistance process, to prevent US funds being used to finance foreign shrimp farms, to increase tariffs on shrimp imports from India, to expand USDA programs to include seafood.

TRD · Trade (domestic/foreign)

Legislation and administrative actions to combat IUU fishing, forced labor and fraud in the global seafood supply chain and to prevent international financing of foreign shrimp farms.

FOO · Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)

Legislation and administrative actions to address labeling fraud in the US and global seafood supply chain