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Agency asks retailers and restaurants to label seafood as imported or domestic, plans task force to craft rules

5861307 · August 20, 2025
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MDMR staff said the agency is assembling a task force to develop rules to require labeling of seafood as imported or domestic and asked seafood retailers and restaurants to begin distinguishing product origin voluntarily while a rulemaking process is developed.

Mississippi Department of Marine Resources officials said they are assembling a task force to develop rules requiring seafood sold at retail and in restaurants to be labeled as imported or domestic, and they asked industry participants to begin voluntarily identifying product origin while the task force meets. At the…

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