President Trump signs executive order to help restore American seafood competitiveness

MARYLAND. – A new executive order from President Donald Trump aims to bolster the competitiveness of American seafood. Local watermen are applauding the decision, believing it will impact the seafood industry.

With over 4 million square miles of prime fishing grounds, the United States oversees a significant portion of global ocean resources. In a speech, President Trump signed the executive order.
“This is an easy one. Hey mom, this is an easy one.” The move is to help keep the work of American anglers as a vast resource.

Seafood is one of the most heavily regulated industries in the United States, with regulations on catch limits and leasing fishing grounds to off-shore wind companies.

The order would place targeted tariffs on foreign countries who export seafood to the U.S. The Trump administration intends to examine and manage decisions by fishing commissions. Robert Newberry, the President of the Delmarva Fisheries Association, states this new move opens up things for the industry in Maryland.

“We are 80% dependent on imports, and hopefully that can get better, and we can 100% supply our own fisheries, which we need to be doing.”

Newberry is glad President Trump made the move – claiming the United States should be the world’s dominant seafood leader. Newberry is suing the Atlantic States Marines Fisheries Commission and allied states. The Chesapeake Bay’s blue-striped bass catch limit led to this.

“Specifically, this executive order does is re-evaluates all the science we have complained about, that the ASMFC, their science, is flawed.”

President Trump and federal agencies will consider suspending, revising, or rescinding regulations that burden America’s commercial fishing, aquaculture, and fish processing industries.

The Trump Administration has created this new era for the seafood industry.