Recreational Fishing Groups Laud US Administration for Ensuring Billfish are Off the Menu

By Rebecca Louviere, Center for Sportfishing.com October 8, 2018

NOAA Fisheries recently published a Billfish Conservation Act FAQ document to ensure the Billfish Conservation Act is clear to those engaged in the seafood business and the general public.

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The Billfish Conservation Act of 2012 banned the importation of all billfish caught by foreign fleets into the continental United States. However, questions arose over whether Congress intended the same prohibitions on foreign-caught billfish imposed by the bill also applied to billfish caught commercially in Hawaii. Conservationists were concerned that domestically caught billfish could be transported from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland, circumventing the intent of the conservation measure.

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