Reston, VA – June 3, 2024 – The US has constructed a world-renowned fishery administration system on regional, science-based oversight and stakeholder collaboration.  The success of this method is past dispute. 

Rep. Mary Peltola’s “Backside Trawl Readability Act” flies within the face of many years of scientific understanding and precise outcomes in a whole lot of federally managed fisheries. Subjectively walling off areas and imposing static space closures primarily based on ideological hostility to sure harvesting strategies is the flawed method.  It’ll restrict the nation’s flexibility to handle fisheries primarily based on the most effective out there science and, within the course of, will threaten a big variety of jobs in seafood harvesting and processing, a lot of them in distant Alaska communities. 

Congress shouldn’t take up this flawed laws.  

Lisa Wallenda Picard 
President & CEO