The Gulf Seafood Institute (GSI), a four-month old non-profit organization comprised of Gulf seafood leaders from all five Gulf States, had a busy week of testifying before two influential governmental organizations responsible for governing the Gulf of Mexico, and the sustainable seafood it provides.
In Washington D.C., David Krebs, GSI board member from Florida and president of Ariel Seafoods, testified before the House of Representatives’ Committee on Natural Resources on the reauthorization of the Magnuson Stevens Act.
As the lead witness for the Gulf region, Krebs joined Samuel D. Rauch III, the deputy assistant administrator at the National Marine Fisheries Service National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Richard B. Robins, Jr., chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council; Rick E. Marks of Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh, PC; Vito Giacalone, the policy director at Northeast Seafood Coalition; Mark Fina, Ph.D, J.D., the senior policy analyst at United States Seafood; George J. Geiger, the owner and operator of Chances Are Fishing Charters; Jeff Deem of Recreational Fishing Alliance; and Ellen K. Pikitch, Ph.D, professor and executive director for the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University.
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