📢Just announced: Today, NOAA Fisheries is releasing its first-ever National Seafood Strategy, which identifies what the agency can do to help increase the resiliency and competitiveness of the U.S. seafood sector in the face of climate change: NOAA
after several rounds of stakeholder input and a public comment period earlier this year. The strategy underscores NOAA’s strong commitment to seafood sector resilience and aligns with the Biden-Harris Administration's goals for economic recovery, environmental sustainability, and climate resilience. Further, the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health points to the need for increased seafood consumption in the United States, which this strategy aims to address.
The strategy also responds to the unprecedented challenges facing the U.S. seafood industry, including climate change, the coronavirus pandemic, new technologies and other ocean uses, significant labor shortages, and aging infrastructure.The National Seafood Strategy outlines NOAA Fisheries’ direction for supporting a thriving domestic U.S. seafood economy. It describes our approach to enhancing the resilience of the seafood sector in the face of climate change and other stressors.The U.S.
U.S. seafood production increases to support jobs, the economy, and the competitiveness of the U.S. seafood sectorOpportunities are expanded for a diverse and growing seafood workforceor increase sustainable U.S. wild capture productionFoster access to domestic and global markets for the U.S. seafood industryPublic comments and stakeholder input were integral to finalizing the strategy and helping guide the direction of our work to support the seafood sector.
Some comments were beyond the scope of this strategy or more relevant to implementation actions for specific programs or regions. These types of comments will be considered as we develop the implementation plan, which is being developed by an internal working group comprising staff from headquarters, regional offices, and science centers.
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