The House and Senate have passed and the President has now signed into law the FY 18 Omnibus Appropriations bill. As the Southern Shrimp Alliance (SSA) reported yesterday, this legislation includes provisions that will expand the U.S. Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP) to cover imported shrimp; our Nation’s largest seafood
The program is administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for the purpose of ensuring the lawful acquisition of seafood imports and to combat fraudulent activities which are so prevalent in the shrimp import supply chain. SSA looks forward to NOAA’s aggressive and timely implementation of this program for shrimp.
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