NMFS Announces Meetings to Discuss New Seafood Filing and Record-Keeping Requirements

The National Marine Fisheries Service announced a series of meetings to discuss new import filing and record-keeping requirements under its Seafood Import Monitoring Program (here). The meetings will also cover the program’s provisions and implementation, the related NMFS ACE filing pilot, as well as traceability data and supply chain record-keeping requirements set by the final rule, which was issued in December and begins taking effect in January 2018 (see 1612080014). The first four meetings will be held in: Long Beach, California, on July 13; Seattle on July 18; Elizabeth, New Jersey, on July 20; and Miami on July 25. “Additional public meetings in the U.S. and abroad may be added and will be announced online at least one week in advance of the meeting(s) at www.iuufishing.noaa.gov,” NMFS said.