NOAA Establishes International Marine Mammal Bycatch Criteria for U.S. Imports

by Press on August 12, 2016

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Fish and fish products must meet protection standards comparable to the U.S.

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 12, 2016. Nations exporting fish and fish products to the United States will have to meet fishing standards for protecting marine mammals equal to those American fishermen follow, under a final rule published yesterday by NOAA Fisheries.

Nations exporting fish and fish products to the United States will have to meet fishing standards that protect marine mammals, like bottlenose dolphins, equal to those in the U.S.

U.S. trade partners will need to show that killing or injuring marine mammals incidental to fishing activities, or bycatch, in their export fisheries do…