AK SJR3

Urges the President and Congress to mitigate harm to Alaska's seafood industry from the U.S. withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.

Alaska's seafood industry directly employs 26,700 state residents, generated $5.8 billion in annual labor income and $14.6 billion in economic output in 2014, and exported over $1 billion worth of pollock and salmon in 2015.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement would have removed import tariffs and strengthened protections against illegal fishing, fish fraud, and mislabeling of inferior seafood products competing with Alaska products.

Withdrawal from the agreement will likely result in foreign markets preferring cheaper farmed salmon from Canada, Chile, and Norway instead of Alaska wild salmon, and reduced competitiveness without bilateral trade agreements and international enforcement against seafood fraud.

Urges the President and Congress to establish bilateral trade relations and enforceable agreements with other nations to protect Alaska's seafood industry from illegal fishing and fraudulent mislabeled products.