Lawmakers call on ag panels to boost seafood sector’s competitiveness in farm bill

The next farm bill must bolster the U.S. seafood industry by establishing a program and policy integration office within the Agriculture Department that would work to improve the sector’s competitiveness in markets at home and abroad, a bipartisan group of three dozen lawmakers said this week in a letter to agriculture committee leaders. Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) led the April 1 letter , sent to Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and ranking member John Boozman (R-AK) as well...