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US SIMP for shrimp, catfish advocates to lose champion in Cochran

'I regret my health has become an ongoing challenge.' -- Mississippi Republican senator Thad Cochran

By Jason Huffman | March 6, 2018 15:21 GMT
Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran, the powerful chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has been one of the forces behind the measure that would require shrimp importers comply with SIMP. Photo from the Senate Appropriations Committee.
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The US lawmaker who is one of the biggest forces behind an effort to make imported shrimp comply with new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recordkeeping rules for imports is calling it quits.  [...]

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