The Honorable Raul Grijalva Chairman Committee on Natural Resources House of Representatives 1324 Longworth House Office Building , DC 20515

November 16, 2020

Dear Chairman Grijalva:

As participants in our nation’s economy, we write to express deep concern regarding Title II of your recently introduced Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act. If enacted, this Title would undermine our nation’s world-class system of management, harming fishermen and the coastal communities they sustain. As you seek feedback on your legislation, we urge you to fundamentally rethink Title II’s provisions.

We hail from different regions, participate in different parts of the seafood supply chain, and have a range of views about other provisions of your new legislation. We are united, however, in our commitment to using the best available science to ensure that our nation’s fisheries are harvested sustainably for the benefit of this and future generations. This guiding principle is at the heart of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, and its increasingly rigorous application by our Regional Management Councils has made our fisheries management system the envy of the world.

It is deeply concerning that such a detailed bill, introduced in the House of Representatives Committee charged with continued stewardship of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, could seek to undermine this law’s operation—and specifically its commitment to scientific rigor—in such far- reaching ways. Our industry is extremely proud to have worked with policymakers and other stakeholders over decades to construct a fisheries management system that is not only succeeding here at home, but is inspiring reforms in Europe, Asia, and beyond. Although no system is perfect, in the vast majority of cases the Magnuson-Stevens Act is laying the foundation for win-win outcomes that safeguard sustainability while simultaneously preserving opportunities for economic success. As a result, the production of American seafood preserves vital cultural traditions, achieves exceptional environmental outcomes, creates jobs in communities across the United States, and delivers food with one of the lowest carbon footprints of any protein on Earth. Title II of the Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act will jeopardize that remarkable record of success.

We share the following overarching concerns about provisions of Title II that uniquely single out our industry:

1. Title II would compel the Executive Branch to establish Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) that prohibit all commercial fishing activity across at least 30 percent of the nation’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) by 2030. One of the central claims made by Title II supporters is that these massive closures would provide benefits to fishermen and other seafood industry participants over the long term. That simply isn’t true. In contrast with many international contexts—where MPAs are established to remedy a profoundly broken fisheries management system and a degraded marine environment—U.S. fisheries are overwhelmingly sustainable and successfully managed to Maximum Sustainable Yield.

Longstanding fisheries bioeconomics theory, which underpins contemporary fisheries management and science, holds that Maximum Sustainable Yield is achieved via exploitation of fish stocks.1 Put another way, the sustainable harvesting of fish stocks is itself necessary to trigger increased ecosystem productivity that in turn allows for higher sustainable harvest levels. Title II’s implied claim—that closing 30 percent of the U.S. EEZ will result in higher long-term yields from U.S. fisheries—is a false promise, lacking a scientific basis.

2. Accordingly, although the specific decisions of the Administration MPA Task Force are impossible to predict, the overall impacts of Title II are not. Without reliable access to the resource, many commercial fishermen will be unable to profitably harvest species they have been fishing for decades. Harvesters and processors will pause or cancel new investments into equipment, hiring, and innovation.2 Coastal communities dependent on commercial fishing will lose a major source of local revenue. Wholesalers and distributors will obtain an increasing proportion of their product from foreign sources, which may not have the same sustainability standards. Restaurants and grocery stores will be able to offer American consumers less domestically-sourced seafood. Low- income families will face higher prices for a reduced supply of a wholesome, nutritious protein.

Major parts of our industry have been decimated this year by fallout from COVID-19. We are genuinely taken aback that you are choosing to end 2020 by introducing legislation that puts the viability of our industry under a second dark cloud of uncertainty, for no discernable reason attached to meaningful improvements in conservation outcomes.

1 For the seminal articulation of this principle see: Schaefer, M.B. (1954) Some aspects of the dynamics of populations, important for the management of the commercial marine fisheries. Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, 1, 7-56.

2 Without meaningful input and notice regarding Task Force determinations, industry will not understand how, when, and why those determinations will impact specific waters and fisheries. This lack of transparency in and of itself will impede investments into commercial fishing, further eroding the competitiveness of U.S. industry. 3. It is true that, even in high-performing fisheries management contexts, the science- based closure of specific areas to all fishing activity can assist in the rebuilding of depleted stocks and thus benefit fishery participants over the long term. Yet this is precisely what already occurs under our nation’s successful fisheries management system. Title II of your legislation appears to ignore the Magnuson-Stevens Act’s success in providing a rigorous, science-based framework for area-based closures to achieve specific rebuilding outcomes. If the objective of area-based closures is to rebuild depleted fisheries, a stakeholder-driven science-based process is far preferable to a top- down approach that sets an arbitrary threshold for total, indefinite closures to commercial fishing.

Area closures implemented by Fishery Management Councils have been part of the scientifically-rigorous formula that has rebuilt 47 previously-depleted species to health since 2000. Six regional Science Centers, together with the Scientific and Statistical Committees of each Council, harness deep expertise regarding the marine environment of each region to inform management decisions. We should build on this remarkable success and expertise within the Magnuson-Stevens framework. Instead, Title II shunts it aside.

4. High-value benthic habitat, such as deep-sea corals, are important parts of the marine ecosystem and worthy of science-based protection. Yet your legislation ignores the protections that have repeatedly been secured for these marine habitats under the existing Magnuson-Stevens Act. These protections—often implemented through painstaking collaborative efforts between industry, environmental organizations and other stakeholders—may not garner the headlines of a marine monument designation, but they are providing durable protections to vast tracts of the U.S. EEZ right now. In 2017, for example, a new Deep Sea Coral Protection Area spanning more than 38,000 square miles was established off the Mid-Atlantic Coast with support from both commercial fishermen and conservationists. The following year, the Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to protect more than 145,000 square miles of sensitive habitats along the West Coast, after a years-long cooperative process initiated by the fishing industry and environmental organizations. Earlier this year, the New England Fishery Management Council adopted sweeping new protections for deep-sea corals in the region, spanning more than 25,000 square miles south of Georges Bank. And just last month, a Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council Amendment using the Essential Fish Habitat provisions of the Magnuson-Stevens Act became final, extending new protections to 500 square miles of deep-sea coral habitat spanning 13 reefs and canyons stretching from Texas to the Florida Keys. These kinds of actions are precisely how durable, stakeholder-driven habitat conservation is working under the Magnuson- Stevens Act in regions around the country.

Why would you undermine these processes, and eviscerate stakeholder buy-in and trust, through the designation of new MPAs via a cabinet-level Task Force that will have no legitimacy with our industry and no bipartisan support? How will a process that takes as its lodestar the failed Northeast Seamounts and Canyons designation—which earned no industry support and saw commercial fisheries access reinstated upon a change of administration—advance long-term conservation objectives? If your desire is to ensure that high conservation value benthic habitats are protected from human impacts unrelated to commercial fisheries, we urge you to draft legislation that would achieve that goal.

5. As our oceans become warmer in a changing climate, fisheries management must be nimble and adaptive. Part of the genius of the existing Magnuson-Stevens Act is its creation of a stakeholder-involved process via which area-based closures can constantly be reviewed and updated based on new scientific information. The idea that 30 percent of the U.S. EEZ should be permanently closed to all commercial fishing activity, without the opportunity to update the specific closure boundaries as part of an adaptive management strategy over the long term, ignores what our scientists are telling us about what will drive successful marine conservation outcomes in the twenty-first century.

6. Title II would create new Marine Protected Areas that prohibit all commercial fishing while allowing recreational fishing to continue. For decades, the Regional Fishery Management Councils have worked to manage commercial, recreational, and mixed-use fisheries for the long-term benefit of all participants. There is no scientific basis whatsoever for discriminating against those harvesting seafood and in favor of those catching fish for sport. This arbitrary, unscientific distinction lies at the heart of Title II, and reveals the extent to which your legislation uniquely singles out and takes aim at our industry.

We are all committed to being part of the conversation about how to strengthen marine conservation and fisheries management in the years ahead. In recent months some of us have welcomed the chance to participate in the regional listening sessions that Subcommittee Chairman Jared Huffman has convened to review the Magnuson-Stevens Act’s operation and consider improvements; and although we reserve judgment on any reauthorization bill Chairman Huffman may propose, the process has been admirably inclusive and deliberative. It is extremely unfortunate that, in stark contrast, you have introduced legislation that would close 30 percent of the U.S. EEZ to a demonstrably sustainable sector of our economy with no consultation with the vast majority of participants in our industry. We hope your hearing on November 17 is a chance to start over, and to begin building deliberatively on our world-leading science-based fisheries management system and its remarkable record of success.

Respectfully,

Stephanie Madsen John Connelly Robert B. Vanasse Leigh Habegger Executive Director President Executive Director Executive Director At-sea Processors National Fisheries Saving Seafood Seafood Harvesters Association Institute of America Doug L. Christensen Dan Nomura President/CEO Mary Grazen Browne President Arctic Storm Management Cape Ann Lobstermen General Group LLC Julie Bonney Maggie Raymond John Haynes Executive Director Executive Director Monterey Harbormaster Alaska Groundfish Data Associated Fisheries of City of Monterey Bank, Inc Maine

Linda Behnken David Borden Gary Jarvis Executive Director Executive Director Alaska Longline Atlantic Offshore Destin Charter Boat Fishermen’s Association Lobstermen's Association Association

James Stone Andrew Bornstein President Vice President Fisheries Survival Fund Alaska Scallop Association Bornstein Seafoods Inc.

Martin Scanlon Amy Daugherty Chad See President Executive Director Executive Director Blue Water Fishermen's Alaska Trollers Association Freezer Longline Coalition Association Rebecca Skinner Norman Van Vactor Travis Hunter Executive Director CEO / President President Alaska Whitefish Trawlers Bristol Bay Economic & Fishermen's Marketing Association Development Corporation Association Brent Fulcher Robert D Alverson Chris Swasand President Executive Director President Beaufort Inlet Seafood Co. Fishing Vessel Owners' Aleutian Spray Fisheries Inc Association Alan Alward Cape Cod Commercial James Johnson Chair Fishermen's Alliance, Inc. President Alliance of Communities for Massachusetts Glacier Fish Company LLC Sustainable Fisheries Kathy Fosmark Ben Platt Mark Franklin Co-Chair President President/CEO Alliance of Communities for California Coast Crab Golden Alaska Seafoods, Sustainable Fisheries Association LLC Inge W Andreassen Rob Ross Chris Woodley President Executive Director Executive Director American Seafoods California Fisheries and Groundfish Forum Company Seafood Institute David Rudie Glenhart Brooks III James Budi President President American Swordfish and California Pelagic Fisheries Gulf Fishermen's Tuna Harvesters Association Association William Gibbons-Fly Diane Pleschner-Steele Eric Brazer Executive Director Executive Director Deputy Director American Tuna Boat California Wetfish Producers Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Association Association Shareholders' Alliance Heather Mann Eric Kingma, PhD Ben Landry Executive Director Executive Director Director of Public Affairs Midwater Trawlers Hawaii Longline Association Omega Protein Cooperative Chris Pugmire Jared Reeves Edward Anthes-Washburn General Manager of Alaska Commissioner Director Operations Oregon Dungeness Crab New Bedford Port Authority Icicle Seafoods, Inc. Commission Erik Anderson Butch Smith Yelena Nowak President President Director New Hampshire Commercial Ilwaco Charter Association Oregon Trawl Commission Fishermen's Association Mike Conroy Nate Rose Andrea TomlinsonGeneral Executive Director President ManagerNew Hampshire Pacific Coast Federation of Kodiak Seiners Association Community Seafood Fishermen's Associations

Daniel P. LaVecchia Peter Anthony Anthony J. Dal Ponte President Owner/Manager General Counsel LaMonica Fine Foods Nordic Fisheries Inc. Pacific Seafood Group

Bonnie Brady Glenn Skinner Chris Barrows Executive Director Executive Director President Long Island Commercial North Carolina Fisheries Pacific Seafood Processors Fishing Association Association Association Daniel A. Waldeck Wayne Reichle David Hambleton Executive Director President President/CCO Pacific Whiting Lund's Fisheries North Pacific Seafoods, Inc Conservation Cooperative Ben Martens John Haran Megan O'Neil Executive Director Manager Executive Director Maine Coast Fishermen's Northeast Fishery Sector Petersburg Vessel Owner's Association XIII Association Annie Tselikis Robert Kehoe Jackie Odell Executive Director Executive Director Executive Director Maine Lobster Dealers' Purse Seine Vessel Owners Northeast Seafood Coalition Association Association David Sullivan John Holloway Casey O'Hara Grand Lodge Representative Director Vice President Machinists Union/Maine Recreational Fishing O'Hara Corporation Lobstering Union Alliance, Oregon Chapter Patrice McCarron Annie Hawkins Mark Palmer Executive Director Executive Director President & CEO Maine Lobstermen's Responsible Offshore OBI Seafoods Association Development Alliance Arthur Sawyer Greg Mataronas Mark Rydman President President CEO Massachusetts Lobstermen's Rhode Island Lobstermen's Ocean Gold Seafood, Inc. 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New Jersey Oceanside Marine New Jersey New Jersey Darrell Wooten Erika Borjesson Deck hand Daniel P. LaVecchia Family member Lund's Fisheries Member F/V Dyrsten New Jersey Oceanside Marine New Jersey New Jersey Hunter Gambale Thomas Howard Deck hand Michael A Parillo Deckhand Lunds Seafood Oceanside Marine F/V Dyrsten New Jersey New Jersey New Jersey Patrick Maxwell Deckhand Michele Marks Matthew Walter F/V Defiance Nancy Elizabeth ACCOUNTING New Jersey OCEANSIDE MARINE New Jersey LLC Thiago Belmont New Jersey Lauren Cox Fisherman’s Wife Compass Gregory Bissey F/V Jersey Cape New York Mate New Jersey Jersey Devil, Oceanside Chris Scola marine LLC Patrick Quinn CS Fisheries New Jersey Captain F/V Retriever New York New Jersey Anthony Simonetti Scott McMullen Paul Kujala MBA Student/CEO Harvard President Owner/Operator Business School CableFish Accords, Inc. F/V Cape Windy New York Oregon Oregon Tom Libby Janet Berg Abby Corporate Manager, Special Managing partner JPR Group Projects F/V Collier Brothers New York California Shellfish Co., Inc. Oregon Oregon Jenna Santa Croce Paul Alexander Project Coordinator Christopher Retherford Owner/Operator JPR Lighting Group Boat Owner F/V Eagle-Eye New York Coast Pride, Winona J, Oregon Mandy J Daniel Fraser Paul Rogalli Oregon Owner/Fisherman JPR Lighting Group Nick Diede F/V Endeavor New York Owner Oregon Cool ChangeII Gayle Miller Oregon Mike Retherford Sales/Project Management Owner JPR Lighting Group Chris Cooper F/V Excalibur New York Owner Oregon Cooper Fishing, Inc Patrick O'Toole Oregon Kenneth Nakazawa Salesman Owner Lockwood & Winant Chang Lee F/V Ikura New York Plant Manager Oregon Da Yang Seafood Jennifer Dennehy Oregon James and Ann Moore Manager James JPR Lighting Group Jerry Bates Captain/Owner New York President F/V Ina Ruth Depoe Bay Fish Co. Oregon Oregon Tina Nickerson Dyrsten Kevin Bennett North Carolina Loren Goddard Owner/Operator Owner F/V Jean C Dockside Charters, Inc. Oregon Oregon Thomas H Terry III Gideon Mease Ohio Kurt Englund Owner President F/V Judy ENGLUND MARINE & Oregon Joel Purkey INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY Owner/Operator Oregon Raymond Graves AliceFaye LLC Owner Oregon M. Shawn Ryan F/V Ken & AL Inc Owner/Operator Oregon Gerald F/V SanPablo GunnariPresidentBandon Oregon Submarine Cable Dave SmithOwnerF/V Lisa CouncilOregon Mike Hague Melinda Oregon Owner/Operator Kurt Smith F/V BEHMER Owner Oregon Ralph Brown Betty Kay Fishing Charters F/V Little Joe LLC Harbor View Enterprises, Inc Oregon Oregon Wade Lester Dean and Anna Frost James C Iverson Captain/Owner Owners South Beach Fish Market F/V Maria FROST FISHERIES, LLC Oregon Oregon Oregon Ann Hanson Dale Baines Michelle Moore Owner and Operator Owner/Captain Owner F/V Master Innisfree Sea Products, Inc. The Galley Kitchen Shop Oregon Oregon Oregon Josh Whaley David P. Jordan Kelly Barnett Captain Owner Owner F/V Miss Emily Jordan Fisheries, F/V The Spot Oregon Granada Oregon Oregon Arik Roberts Astrid Hesberg Captain Michael Coleman Homemaker of a fisherman F/V Miss Sarah General Manager Vanguard Oregon Coastal Alaska Premier Oregon Seafoods, LLC Michael Lane Oregon Per Hesberg Fisherman Captain F/V Morning star Kevin Dunn Vanguard Oregon President Oregon K & K Knots Inc Michael & Karen Pettis Oregon Michael Retherford Jr Owners Owner/Operator F/V Patriot, F/V Jaka-B and Mark Cooper F/V Winona J F/V Challenge Owner Oregon Oregon Leslie Lee, Inc Oregon Todd Whaley Michelle Winfield Owner Guy Lutz OwnerWnfld Fisheries, Inc. F/V Prolifik Captain/Co-owner Oregon Oregon Lutz Seafood, F/V Jessica A Oregon Brent Winfield Lyle Yeck Owner Owner Nanci Cooper Wnfld Fisheries, Inc. F/V Raven Owner Oregon Oregon Pacific, Inc Oregon Deborah Stilwell Fred Yeck Owner President Jason Prophet Yaquina Bay Bookkeeping F/V Seadawn Fisheries, Inc Owner LLC Oregon Prophet Fisheries Oregon Oregon Kevin Dixon Deborah Marrington Captain Gerald ReinholdtFisherman, Secretary F/V Seeker Processor Rep Diversified Fisheries, Inc. Oregon PFMCReinholdt Fisheries, Oregon F/V AallotarOregon Taunette Dixon Nick Edwards Owner Pamela Harper Secretary F/V Tauny Ann Owner Shrimp Producers Marketing Oregon Sea Lion III Cooperative Oregon F/V Carter Jon Michele and Bob Eder Oregon Owners Larry Standley F/V Timmy Boy Owner Oregon Silver C LLC Oregon Justin Yager Gary Mataronas Jr Eric E. 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The Safegard Group Rhode Island Luke Wheeler Pennsylvania Owner/Captain Tom LaFazia F/V Shirley Ann Eric Todd Manager Rhode Island Captain Narragansett Bay Lobsters, Alison Rose Inc F/V Susan Rose Rhode Island Rhode Island Susan Rose Fisheries, LLC James Perkins Richard Blades Rhode Island Owner/Operator Captain Catherine Ann Nina B Todd Sutton Rhode Island Rhode Island President Sutton Enterprises Roswell Perkins William R Palombo Rhode Island Captain President Cynthia Ann Palombo Fishing Corp. F/V Tenacity Rhode Island Rhode Island Tenacity Fisheries, LLC F/V Determination James Mataronas Rhode Island Determination Fisheries, Owner LLC Sakonnet Lobster Co Gary Matatonas Rhode Island Rhode Island Owner/Operator Terminator Fisheries Doug Mataronas F/V Stephanie Bryan Rhode Island Manager Elmridge Fisheries, Sakonnet Lobster Co Katie Almeida Inc.Rhode Island Rhode Island Fishery Policy Analyst The Town Dock Carl Berg F/V Excalibur Rhode Island Captain Excalibur Fisheries, LLC Sakonnet Lobster II Rhode Island Matt MataronasOwnerTwo Rhode Island Brothers Fisheries, IncRhode Gregory J Mataronas Island Gary Mataronas Owner/Operator F/V Edna May Sakonnet Point Fisheries, Rhode Island LLC Rhode Island Chris Roebuck Kevin Dunn Stoian Iankov Owner Captain Owner Wild Atlantic Seafood F/V Iron Lady Black Sea Fisheries Inc. Rhode Island Washington Washington William & Patricia Bisbee Tony Geisman Thomas Burlingame Owners ASTH Excel Fishing Charters F/V Jackpot South Carolina Washington Washington William A Cox William & Patricia Bisbee James Seitz VP General Manager Owners Owner Yonges Island Fish F/V Mar Pacifico F/V Anita D Shrimp LLC Company, Inc Washington Washington South Carolina Robert Puratich Sarah Franey William and Cathy Nelson Owner Commercial Fishing Owners F/V Marauder F/V Edge Runner B&C Scallop Co Inc Washington Washington Virginia William & Patricia Bisbee William & Patricia Bisbee Dan Nomura Owners Owners President F/V Rosella F/V Golden Fleece Canadian Fishing Company Washington Washington Virginia William & Patricia Bisbee Thomas Kelly Jack Devnew Owners Owner President Jackpot Industries Kelly's Fresh Fish Inc. Compass Insurance Washington Washington Solutions Virginia F. Joseph Bersch III Dan Martin President Owner Tracie Davis Phoenix Processor Limited Martin Fisheries Inc. Compass Insurance Partnership Washington Solutions Washington Virginia James Seitz Karl H. Bratvold Owner John Austin Devnew Owner/Manager North Bay Fisheries Manager Starbound LLC Washington Compass Marine Group Washington Ben Bale Michael J. Gerrior Chanh Huynh CFO Concerned Citizen President Ocean Gold Seafood, Inc. Washington, DC F/V Andy One Inc Washington Virginia Albert Carter Jeff Oliver Nga Huynh Governmental Affairs Owner/Skipper President Ocean Gold Seafood, Inc. F/V Royal Mariner F/V Lucky Danny Inc Washington Virginia Joe Willis Timothy Terry Greg Owner/Operator Staff Officer ShaughnessyCOO/GMOcean F/V Sakina Gold SeafoodsWashington United States Navy Virginia Burlin Phillips Mike Okoniewski Owner Fisheries Consultant BP Fishing Washington Washington