NOAA Grants Swimming Crab Import Access to Vietnam, Indonesia, Sri Lanka After Court-Ordered Review

NOAA Fisheries has granted comparability findings to swimming crab fisheries in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, allowing continued US imports from these countries while maintaining import restrictions on Philippines fisheries following a court-ordered reconsideration process.
The agency announced May 11 that it granted comparability findings to swimming crab fisheries in the three Asian nations after reviewing additional information submitted as part of a settlement agreement with the National Fisheries Institute and other industry groups that challenged the original...
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