A bureaucratic mishmash

23/03/09 10:37 Filed in: Fishing Industry | Regulations
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Are you sure that's haddock you are eating? A new report out from the Government Accountability Office says seafood fraud is rampant, and cites a lack of coordination between the panoply of agencies charged with overseeing the fishing industry. Read the story from USA Today here.

If your morning taste for bureaucratic inefficiency isn't satisfied check out an opinion piece from last week published in the Atlanta-Constitution Journal. It, too, highlights the mishmash of laws and federal agencies that regulate ocean activity, and says they are failing to adequately protect this valuable ecosystem and its marine life.

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