How many restaurants can afford an audit trail like this law is requiring?
Without the audit trail requirement, the country-of-origin labeling is meaningless. Retailers (or those earlier in the chain) could just slap a USA label on anything.
It’d have to he pretty easy to document the source of the fish,,, if it was Catfish from a southern aqua farm. If its some crapfish cat-impersonator from China, it might be harder.
How about the ability to sue the snot out of someone who sells you ‘catfish” when it is actually some polluted Asian ersatz substitute? I’d be just fine with that.
What 'audit trail'? When a restaurant or retailer purchases seafood to sell or prepare for customers, the distributor from which they purchase it will have the information about the origin of the product. They can include that information on the invoice, thus the restaurant or retailer can pass this on to the consumer. I don't know why this would be difficult for them.