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Agricultural Biotechnology: Overview and Selected Issues (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised March 7, 2005
Report Number IB10109
Authors Eugene H. Buck, Resources, Science, and Industry Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

In the 108th Congress, P.L. 108-7 created a West Coast Groundfish Fishing Capacity Reduction Program, directed NOAA Fisheries to establish a Regional Office for the Pacific Area, required increased legal and fiscal accountability for Pacific salmon recovery, and provided $100 million in fishery disaster funding. P.L. 108-11 directed the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate regulations allowing wild seafood to be certified or labeled as organic. P.L. 108-136 reauthorized the Sikes Act through FY2008 and authorized certain vessels for use as artificial reefs. P.L. 108-199 rationalized certain Alaska crab fisheries and instituted processor quotas. P.L. 108-219 reauthorized the Yukon River Salmon Act through FY2008. P.L. 108-287 made Department of Defense Buy American requirements permanently inapplicable to the procurement of fish, shellfish, and seafood. P.L. 108-293 increased consultation on fishery law enforcement. H.R. 4706, S. 482, and S. 2066 were introduced to reauthorize and comprehensively amend the MSFCMA.