“Now is the time to embrace new opportunities for American workers and American consumers,” said Sean O’Scannlain, president of CEO of Fortune International, a seafood processor in the Midwest.
Bill DiMento, president of Stronger America Through Seafood, an industry group with backing from Cargill, Red Lobster, Sysco and other larger seafood companies that is trying to expand U.S. aquaculture, said he supported the president’s announcement.
“Our country needs economic stimulus — not just in terms of immediate cash assistance, but also in the form of new job opportunities,” DiMento said in a statement. “Why not put Americans back to work in an emerging industry like aquaculture at a time when it is needed most?
Reps. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., and Steven Palazzo, R-Miss., introduced legislation (HR 6191) in March to support the growth of the aquaculture business domestically.
Trump’s order does not help people who work as fishermen and fisherwomen, focusing instead on fish farming, which is a far smaller industry, Hallie Templeton, an oceans campaigner with Friends of the Earth, an environmental advocacy organization, said in an interview.
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