To: Seafood Community
Fr: Pamela Tom
University of California, Sea Grant Extension Program
The National Marine Fisheries Service (USA) has a proposed rule regarding
the establishment and operation of seafood marketing councils. The
Federal Register document is 18 pages long. Comments to the proposed rule
are due February 23, 2006.
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SUMMARY: In 1989, NMFS issued a final rule enacting the Fish and Seafood
Promotion Act of 1986 (Act), as it pertains to Seafood Marketing Councils
(Councils), for one or more species of fish or fish products. That rule,
along with a large number of other rules and regulations unused or little
used, was stricken from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) as part of a
government-wide Presidential regulatory reform effort. Although the
implementing regulations were withdrawn from the CFR, the Act remains in
effect. In response to renewed industry support for marketing and
promotion-related activities, NMFS proposes regulations implementing the
Act governing the establishment and operation of marketing Councils.
Therefore, the intent of the proposed rule is to responsibly implement the
Act to be consistent with NMFS' goals and mission statement. That is, to
ensure that NMFS stewardship goal is not jeopardized while increasing
benefits from domestic fisheries. Several revisions to the 1989
implementing regulations are proposed in this document in order to comply
with new regulatory and/or legal requirements.
DATES: Comments on this proposed rule are requested, and must be received
no later than 5 p.m., local time, February 23, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Written comments on this proposed rule should be sent by any
of the following methods:
E-mail: SMCcomments@noaa.gov. Include in the subject line
the following: ``Comments on the Proposed Rule for Seafood Marketing
Councils;''
Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov;
Mail: Paper, disk, or CD-ROM comments should be sent to
Gordon J. Helm, Acting Director, Office of Constituent Services, Room
9553, SSMC3, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910; and
Fax: (301) 713-2384.
Source: Federal Register, Vol. 71, No. 15, January 24, 2006, p. 3797 -
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