News Summary September 17, 2026
Today's Top Story: US Seafood Industry Calls for Reform of EU CATCH System
Kicking things off today, a coalition of US seafood groups — Pacific Seafood Processors Association, Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, At-sea Processors Association, and now the National Seafood Association — is pushing the EU to reform its new CATCH traceability system, arguing it wrongly assumes a clean, predictable link between catches and finished product in complex, high-volume fisheries. The stakes are already real: roughly 16,000 metric tons of Alaska seafood were held up in the Netherlands over documentation issues, plus another 600 metric tons stuck in Denmark, racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs...
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