November 23, 2018 — Importers of Mexican shrimp are seeing their trucks stopped at the US border by what seems like a surprise, early version of the new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) seafood import monitoring program (SIMP) rules for shrimp, Undercurrent News has learned.
But it’s not SIMP.
Mayan Seafood, a Canadian company that imports Mexican shrimp into the US, has had two refrigerated trucks containing a combined total of 55,000 pounds of both farm-raised and wild-caught shrimp sitting in Nogales, Mexico, since Nov. 15 — a week — Rod MacDonald, the general manager, told Undercurrent Wednesday.
The problem: US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) wouldn’t allow the trucks entry because Mayan, like a number of other exporters of Mexican shrimp to the US, had not filled out “certificates of admissibility”, a newly required form that must identify, along with other information, the exact time and location of each shrimp catch, the weight of each catch, the name of the boat that made each catch and the type of fishing gear used.
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