Posted on 10/11/2021 1:49:42 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A customs dispute at the U.S.-Canada border is threatening America’s supply of a key fish used for popular products such as fish sticks and fast food sandwiches.
The Alaska pollock has a complicated supply chain. After being caught as part of the largest commercial fishery in the U.S., the fish are transported by ship to New Brunswick, Canada, near the border with Maine. Then they’re loaded onto rail cars for a brief trip down 100 feet (30 meters) of track in Canada, before being put on trucks and crossing the border into the U.S.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has alleged that shippers are violating the Jones Act, which requires that goods shipped between U.S. ports be transported on U.S.-owned ships.
The agency has assessed more than $350 million in penalties to the shippers, records state. Two of the shipping companies have sued in federal court to stop the enforcement, which they characterized as heavy-handed, unexpected and unfair.
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How are the shipped from Alaska to New Brunswick? And why?
Kanye is deeply saddened.
Whole federal gub mint is crappola.
I used to like “fish stick day” at school. Sloppy Joe day was the best, though.
Pollock’s an underrated fish!
I blame Megan Markle...
Keep ‘em. Fish sticks are nasty.
I wonder if this is just another contrived effort to crap on our supply chains.
wonder if undocumented fish sticks are allowed to cross the border...
Good question. I thought that maybe the fish was named "Alaskan Pollock," but was caught in the North Atlantic.
But nope, they're mostly caught in the North Pacific.
If they want to ship from Alaska to a processing plant on the US East Coast, the Jones Act would have required it to happen on a US flagged ship. By shipping to Canada, they can ship on cheaper non-US ships.
And, yes, they could load them into railroad cars, but using ships has historically been the cheapest way to transport in bulk.
I can’t remember the last time I had a fish stick.
Are they still a “thing” in school cafeterias? I seem to remember seeing them on Fridays in particular.
No Fish Sticks, No Peace!
It was always fish sticks on Friday at the Catholic school. In heavily Catholic areas the public schools may have done the same.
I knew an Alaskan Pollock, Stan Kowalski, from Anchorage.
Do you like fish sticks? Do you like to put them in your mouth?
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