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Hearing used to make case that expanded SIMP would better block Russian seafood

'NOAA must immediately take steps to expand SIMP so that we can keep slave-caught illegal and Russian seafood out of this country and stop funding Putin's atrocities' -- US representative Jared Huffman

By Jason Huffman | April 8, 2022 16:52 BST
Sally Yozell, director of the environmental security program at the Stimson Center, at a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on April 7, 2022. Image is still from video.
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The champions for expanding the Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP) made their case Thursday that such a move would not only help to stop slave labor in commercial fishing but also block Russian seafood from coming into the US from other countries, especially China [...]

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