Seafood Harvesters support quick Congressional action to pass fishing vessel discharge exemption
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SCOM] November 20, 2014
The Seafood Harvesters of America support a bill introduced by US Sens. Marco Rubio and Lisa Murkowski that would temporarily exempt commercial fishing vessels from certain water discharge regulations mandated by the EPA.
Today, the Alaskan and Florida Senators introduced the bill ahead of the December 18th expiration of the current moratorium fishing vessels are operating under.
“This one-year extension is an imperative for Alaska’s fishing communities; it will prevent extraordinary hardships on small, family fishing operations throughout coastal Alaska,” said Murkowski. “The EPA permit would impose operational limitations and physical modifications to vessels, many of which just do not make sense for fishing vessels, including trying to limit the ‘environmental impacts of rainwater or waves running off their deck.’
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