However, you're primarily dealing with the information that's given to you by the packers, the shippers of the product arriving at the border. The scenario, and what this study is looking at, is illegal, unreported cash sales. If the processor in this case were shipping product across the border, I'm not sure how your agency would have the legislative capability or the operational capability of testing to see if all the product that arrived at the plant arrived through regulated fisheries in compliance with those fisheries. Would that be a stretch?
On November 28th, 2023. See this statement in context.