Sea Grant training in
Seafood Safety
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Sea Grant
delivered
training
courses enabling
more than
15,000 individuals
in industry
to comply
with the
nation’s
first mandatory
food safety
regulations
based on
an innovative
training
program called
Hazard Analysis
Critical
Control Point
(HACCP).
Eighty-three
percent of
American
seafood businesses
reported
that they
could not
have met
federal regulations
without these
courses.
The Department
of Health
and Human
Services
reported
that food-borne
illnesses
in the US
have been
reduced by
23 percent
since 1996
through HACCP
training
courses,
thereby saving
as much as
$115 million
annually
in economic
losses.
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Sea
Grant
helps
in
collecting
fishery
stocks
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Very little
biological
information
has been
collected
on Atlantic
halibut stocks
(one of the
region’s
most prized
seafood items)
in the Gulf
of Maine.
This information
is needed
for future
fisheries
management
decisions.
Sea Grant
staff helped
to develop
data collection
tools and
methods,
and trained
100 participating
fishermen
to participate
in halibut
studies.
This effort
has led to
the formulation
of state
rules for
the fishery. |
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Sea Grant research helps
in developing regulations
to save seabirds
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Based on
an applied
research
project by
Sea Grant,
the North
Pacific Fisheries
Management
Council adopted
regulations
requiring
larger longline
vessels to
deploy seabird
bycatch mitigation
messures,
thus saving
the lives
of seabirds
and preventing
a potential
closure of
the valuable
longline
fishery. |
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