Seafood Harvesters making sure F/V discharge exemption bill gets through Congress (Fish Radio)
Fishermen won’t need special permits to hose off their decks thanks to a bill moving through the US Senate.
"Essentially, this Vessel Incidental Discharge Act extends a moratorium that was already grant to commercial fishing industry from 2008 and it’s been up every couple of years. It would extend this moratorium indefinitely so commercial fishing vessels don’t have to apply for a ridiculous discharge permit every time rain falls onto your deck and flows overboard. That’s incidental discharge to the normal operation of a vessel. So it just cuts the red tape that fishermen would have to incur."
Brett Veerhusen is director of Seafood Harvesters of America who has been watch dogging the discharge bill. It still has to get final approval from Congress, but with strong bipartisan support, he is confident it will make it through...
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