Thank you.
Yes, it is a huge issue. It's very confusing. Right now, we talk about mislabelled products, but even correctly labelled products don't really tell you that much.
Our current country-of-origin requirements just require that a product be labelled with the last place of transformation. You could be buying something that says “Product of Canada” or “Product of the United States”, but that doesn't necessarily reflect where that product was originally fished. This makes it really hard for consumers to get an accurate sense of what they're buying if they're trying to avoid certain countries or certain practices because they have concerns about those things or if they're trying to buy locally. Right now, they don't have the accurate information to make those choices.
I'll let the other witnesses speak to it as well.