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Seafood for Consumers Coalition
Supports A2165
Assemblyman Asselta and Assemblyman Impreveduto have introduced A2165,
a bill
that authorizes and regulates the sale of striped bass. This
bill would allow New
Jersey seafood consumers to buy striped bass provided by a strictly
regulated and limited harvest in restaurants, supermarkets and other retail
outlets. Some special interests falsely claim that striped bass are
not abundant. Here are the facts:
“Our information records go back to the 1880’s. This year’s science
showed that there are more striped bass than in any time of the history
of this nation, so we can have successes.”
– Rolland Schmitten, head of the National Marine Fisheries Service,
Testimony before the Fisheries Subcommittee of the House Resources Committee,
on September 11, 1997
The Seafood for Consumers Coalition is comprised of the New Jersey Food
Council, Farm Bureau, Restaurant Association, Seafood Harvesters Association,
Bait Fish and Menhaden Alliance, Cape May Seafood Association, Fishermen’s
Dock Cooperative, National Fisheries Institute, and numerous individual
businesses and individuals. Contact 609-729-9050 for more information.
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