U.S. fisherman will no longer be getting a raw deal when trying to compete against cheap and questionable seafood from international suppliers under a new initiative announced by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
\n\nThe announcement, made at a boisterous rally Friday with President Donald Trump in Fort Meyers, Florida, included the creation of a voluntary label made for U.S.-caught fish to differentiate them from items often grown in polluted fish farms abroad.
\n\nInitiatives also in the works include a new government website, seafood.gov, which is now up and tracking catches, sales, and infrastructure as well as outlining strategies to aid American commercial fisherman.
\n\nKennedy said at the rally that fish caught in the U.S. does not compare with the imports from countries that have few quality and safety controls and can even be toxic.
\n\nThe secretary cited examples in Vietnam and Cambodia where shrimp farms fence off mangrove swamps and kill the local fish to raise shrimp “loaded with antibiotics” for five years, ultimately destroying the swamp in the process.
\n\n“No European country will take them, so they ship them all over here,” Kennedy said. “President Trump is rebuilding the infrastructure, he’s reopening the markets…
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