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Back in February 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump inked an executive order directing all federal agencies to repeal two existing regulations for each new one – a decision with drastic proposed consequences for the National Marine Fisheries Service.
A response letter later postmarked to President Trump from House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl Grijalva and Water, Power, and Oceans Subcommittee Ranking Member Jared Huffman laid out the expected affects that the order would have on NMFS activities: preventing the agency from opening or closing commercial and recreational fishing seasons in federal waters; disallowing NMFS from making in-season adjustments to conservation and management measures; and halting agency implementation of new or revised fishery management plans without first seeking a waiver from the Trump administration.
“All fisheries that take place in federal waters require regulatory action to open and close season, set catch limits, modify conservation and management measures, or adjust participation eligibility requirements,” the letter said. “In many cases, multiple regulations must be enacted each year for a single fishery and that is a good thing – American fishermen depend on active, science-based management to ensure that .heir individual operations and their industry are economically and environmentally sustainable.”
Revisit the letter and other responses to the executive order via the story below.
Read it again: https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/environment-sustainability/nmfs-fisheries-regulation-potentially-affected-by-trump-executive-order
