Implementing President Trump’s Executive Order 14276 titled Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness, 1 the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is soliciting public comments on how to improve fisheries management, decrease regulatory barriers, and strengthen the competitiveness of the nation’s seafood industry.

Specifically, NMFS is asking the public to weigh in on four issues: (1) regulatory changes to reduce burdens on heavily regulated domestic fisheries, (2) innovative ways to improve management and meet legal requirements, (3) how NMFS can incorporate modern technology into its management programs and encourage modernization within the domestic fishing fleet, and (4) expansion of the exempted fishing permit program.

For purposes of providing comments, NMFS organized fisheri

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