• Atlantic and Gulf menhaden optimum yield and sustainability; Coast Guard administration of merchant marine licenses; Conservation management of forage fish.
• Impact of federal trade and tariff policies on fish meal and oil export process and markets.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to October 1, 2019

General Issues: Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries, Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Immigration, Budget/Appropriations, Natural Resources, Health Issues, Environmental/Superfund, Clean Air & Water (Quality), Disaster Planning/Emergencies

Spending: about $2,680,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2008: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), U.S. Senate,, Commerce - Dept of (DOC),, Commerce - Dept of (DOC), U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Army - Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)