Federal officials plan to track every fish and crustacean shipped to U.S. ports

No FishingBefore any seafood enters the U.S. market, officials said, it must contain information that federal, state and local officials currently do not ask for: its origin, who caught it, when and with what. That data can be taken by any federal, state and local authority at a port and submitted to a central database for tracking. Conservationist groups that pushed the administration to better protect global fishing stocks for years cheered the report. Michele Kuruc, vice president of ocean policy for the , called it historic. Read the rest here 12:37

One Response to Federal officials plan to track every fish and crustacean shipped to U.S. ports

  1. StripedBassHole says:

    So we can expect more Government Jobs. I hope these new Jobs will be paid for with the EXPORTERS MONEY, not a reshuffle of S & K Funds. Then I doubt NOAA will allow that, seeing that they’ve legislated the FUNDS away from their original intent.
    So will we see some HONEST LABELING, no BULL SHIT “GREEN STAMPS” of approval and “SUSTAINABLE B.S.”.
    We need to see a return to the “SPIRIT of the 1976 MAGNUSON ACT”. People want to see a return of the “TRADITIONAL DAY BOAT FRESH FISH”. Dump “T.O.O.P.” and give us back “OUR COMMON PROPERTY” and return “AMERICAS SEAFOOD” back to it’s “NATURAL RESOURCE STATUS”. “PRIVATIZATION” is “UN-AMERICAN”. Let us “FREE” again. Let’s see “MADE IN AMERICA” back on the SHELVES. “OUR NATION” needs to return to “THE LAND OF THE FREE AND HOME OF THE BRAVE”. For the PEOPLE by the PEOPLE, knock of the “EXECUTIVE DECISION” American derailment. We did not “VOTE” in “SOCIALISM” “DICTATORSHIP” will arouse “ANARCHY” by “THE PEOPLE”…

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