Experts at University of California Say Seafood Deregulation Could Impact Sustainability and Supply
A sweeping new executive order to deregulate the U.S. seafood sector risks unraveling decades of scientific progress and environmental protections, according to aquaculture and fishery scientists writing in a new paper published in the journal Marine Policy. Rather than strengthening the industry, they argue, the policy threatens the very systems that support sustainable seafood.
"(It's) a significant escalation in undoing federal regulatory frameworks, weakening scientific authority and deemphasizing aquaculture development," state professors Halley Froehlich of UC Santa Barbara and Jessica Gephart at the University of Washington...
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