Exporters gear up to comply with SIMP regulations on shrimp by US

Indian exporters are gearing up to comply with the Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP) regulations on shrimp by USA. SIMP will be enforced on Indian shrimp exports to USA from January 1, 2019 and this has unnerved the exporters.

SIMP requires traceability information on imported seafood from point of capture to the point of first sale in the US in order to thwart Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing activity. It is mandatory for foreign shrimp products to be accompanied by harvest and landing data and for importers to maintain chain of custody records for shrimp imports entering the USA.

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