Sec. 70801. Sense of Congress
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It is the sense of Congress that— American wild-caught seafood is integral to the Nation’s food supply and to American food security; the seafood supply chain is often long and complex; American caught and American-processed seafood especially from small-scale fishery operations, can be a sustainable healthy source of protein and micronutrients; fresh, frozen, dried, and canned domestic seafood can be produced, processed, packaged, and transported in a manner that has a low carbon footprint; marine species that are small, at lower trophic levels, and pelagic typically have the smallest carbon footprint; and therefore, any executive agency that purchases seafood products should, to the extent practicable, buy local American-caught or American-harvested and American-processed seafood products from fisheries that are not overfished or experiencing overfishing, in order to support sustainable local seafood businesses, reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with the seafood product supply chain, and reduce dependence on imported seafood products.