Purse Seine Vessel Owners joins national Seafood Harvesters lobbying group
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SCOM] Oct 14, 2014
The Seafood Harvesters of America announced that Seattle based Purse Seine Vessel Owners Association would join the organization. Seafood Harvesters is a collection of representative commercial fishing organizations from virtually every coastal state that is working to preserve the positive gains in Magnuson regarding seafood harvesters. These include supporting IFQ's where appropriate, and opposing any tilt towards taking fish for the exclusive use of recreational anglers, and depriving American diners of local seafood.
Another issue the group is urgently working on is the extension of a moratorium on the application of discharge permits to commercial vessels. Recreational vessels have already been exempt, but without an extensionof the commercial exemption, harvesters would be subject to EPA requirements to file a discharge permit if it rained and water washed off their deck. With bi-partisan support for this extension there is no reason it cannot be passed..
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