ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Ambassador Katherine Tai, the United States trade representative, and Sen. Dan Sullivan held a roundtable discussion with leaders from the state’s fishing industry at Hotel Captain Cook on Thursday.
“A report by the United States International Trade Commission estimated the economic cost to U.S. fishers of illegal unreported and unregulated fishing is over $60 million,” Tai said. “And one of the biggest threats when it comes to IUU fishing we know comes from China, which extensively subsidizes its fishery sector to gain an advantage that is really very unfair.”