Better Seafood Board spearheads interagency workshop

May 26, 2009 Washington, DC The Better Seafood Board (BSB) is bringing together half a dozen government regulatory offices as part of an effort to educate officials and find solutions to the problem of seafood short weighting.

The announcement of the meeting, set for May 28th, comes on the heels of a Government Accountability Office report that said, The federal agencies that share responsibility for detecting and preventing seafood fraud do not effectively collaborate with each other.

This is an extraordinary opportunity to help these agencies better understand the problem and unify their response to it, said Lisa Weddig, BSB secretary.

At the BSBs request the National Institute of Standards and Technology will host the meeting and welcome members of the National Marine Fisheries Service, Customs and Border Protection, the United States Department of Agriculture, the National Conference on Weights and Measures, the Food and Drug Administration and select State programs.

Members of the BSB take their commitment to fighting fraud in the seafood industry seriously and its heartening to see such a diverse group of regulators recognize that effort and step up to address this issue, said Weddig.

The Better Seafood Board (BSB) was established by the National Fisheries Institute to provide a mechanism for industrys partners in the supply chain restaurants, retail operations, producers and processors - to report suppliers suspected of committing economic fraud

Contact Information

Gavin Gibbons
(703) 752-8891
ggibbons@nfi.org