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Jared Huffman: “Unless that fish is one of the 13 species that happened to be covered by SIMP--and we know most of them are not--the…”

On the recordApril 6, 2022
Unless that fish is one of the 13 species that happened to be covered by SIMP--and we know most of them are not--the Russian origins of this seafood is untraceable, and the ban is impossible to enforce.
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Jared Huffman
Democratic · California

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Huffman points out the enforcement challenges of the seafood ban due to lack of traceability for most species.

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