date:Apr 01, 2014
utilizes the agency's current seafood inspection program and only charges fees to producers and businesses that want to participate. There should not be a charge to taxpayers, according to MAFAC.
NOAA has not yet developed cost models on what the fees would be, Rauch said.
The certification program would focus first on wild-caught seafood from federally-managed waters, and then phase in seafood from state-managed commercial fisheries and aquaculture products.
Rauch is not sure how long it wo