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LETTER: A possible solution to tariffs and the snow crab fishery by Barry Darby and Helen Forsey
In regard to the current discussions around the crab fishery as it faces potential U.S. tariffs, we want to suggest a solution. Both the Fish Food and Allied Workers union and the Association of Seafood Processors acknowledge that the threat of those tariffs creates significant challenges around developing a price-setting formula and setting wharf prices. The tariffs pose a risk that the harvest and processing might be severely disrupted, with serious impacts on all involved. We have been studying and observing this harvest and processing for decades, and this year it is especially difficult. Our suggestions are that for the 2025 season, harvesters and processors would agree to the following: more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 08:23
Federal Judge Evokes Dr. Seuss in Upholding Seafood Regulations
Invoking Dr. Seuss, a federal judge on Monday quoted from the 1960 classic “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish” to uphold a regulatory regime intended to cut down on seafood fraud and protect U.S. fishers from unfair competition. Despite a challenge to the rule by a slew of U.S. seafood importers, harvesters and processors, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta found that the traceability rule, which requires importers to document the supply chain of imports from their origin to their arrival in the U.S., was lawfully implemented by the National Marine Fisheries Service. click here to read the story 18:32
