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This is shaping up to be a busy year for NOAA’s Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP). The agency has a proposed rule out for public comment (which we will discuss in depth over the coming weeks), and was handed a number of new SIMP requirements from Congress in the
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TL;DR: no, you don’t. This might be surprising given how much media attention fishing vessel tracking is getting these days. In reality, importing governments like the US and EU at most will ask for the area the fish was caught and where it was offloaded. Why require general
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Late last year, the Court of International Trade disagreed with the US government and sided with conservation advocate Sea Shepherd’s argument that the US must ban imports of seafood harvested in a manner that threatens the endangered Māui dolphin. While the action was immediate, implementing a highly specific trade