• Federal legislative and regulatory activities pertaining to the conservation, management and research of US shrimp fisheries and bycatch. FY24 funding for shrimp fishing effort research and FDA testing, Legislation to provide more H-2B visas for shrimp fishing vessels and processors, legislation to address NOAA National Seafood Strategy and seafood marketing funding. Legislation to provide compensation to fishermen for impacts from offshore wind energy development. Efforts to avoid impacts of offshore wind energy development on the shrimp fisheries. Legislation addressing IUU fishing, seafood fraud and forced labor.
• Legislation and administrative actions to combat IUU fishing, forced labor and fraud in the global seafood supply chain
• Legislation and administrative actions to address labeling fraud in the US and global seafood supply chain

Duration: January 1, 2008 to present

General Issues: Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries, Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Food Industry (Safety, Labeling, etc.), Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Environmental/Superfund

Spending: about $1,975,000 (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, Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Interior - Dept of (DOI), Labor - Dept of (DOL), White House Office, State - Dept of (DOS), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), U.S. Trade & Development Agency (USTDA), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), Small Business Administration (SBA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),, Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), U.S. Coast Guard (USCG),, Intl Trade Administration (ITA), Government Accountability Office (GAO), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)