Federal Government Signals Potential Changes to Seafood Import Monitoring Program

The US National Marine Fisheries Service has placed a new rulemaking on the federal government's Unified Agenda that could bring meaningful changes to the Seafood Import Monitoring Program, the documentation and traceability system that governs how imported seafood enters the US market. The listing, published July 5 under RIN 0648-BK85, represents the earliest official signal that the agency intends to develop new rules.
The Unified Agenda is the federal government's semiannual roadmap of planned regulatory actions. Its publication does not mean a rule is imminent — any substantive changes would...
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