Southern Shrimp Alliance Supports Select Committee Recommendation on Seafood
The Southern Shrimp Alliance cheered the House Select Committee on China's recommendation that seafood from China should be subject to a presumption that it was caught or processed with forced labor.
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"If the Select Committee’s recommendation regarding the UFLPA was adopted, U.S. importers would no longer be able to exploit the human rights violations occurring in Shandong province to obtain higher profit margins on their shrimp products," the trade group said.
However, they raised the issue that the legislation would have to be written carefully, since while some fish that is caught in Alaska and fileted and frozen in China comes back as a Chinese product, shrimp caught in Argentina but processed in China remains of Argentinian origin.
"There is no reasonable justification for shipping shrimp across an ocean to be processed in a plant that has the same capabilities as shrimp processing plants around the world,” John Williams, executive director of the Southern Shrimp Alliance, said. “Creating supply chains to profit off of human suffering is reprehensible and the Southern Shrimp Alliance is grateful to the Select Committee for focusing on this issue and proposing meaningful, effective solutions.”