SECURING AMERICAN SEAFOOD DOMINANCE: Today, President Donald J. Trump’s Administration unveiled the historic America First Seafood Strategy and launched Seafood.gov, implementing a plan of action for the future of America’s seafood industry.

• The Strategy recognizes U.S. fishermen as essential to America’s economic strength, food security, coastal prosperity, and national resilience. 
  • The Strategy prioritizes rebuilding infrastructure by reducing regulatory barriers to expansion and modernization, thereby encouraging investment in processing jobs such as those that provide the primary source of income to hundreds of rural Alaska communities.
  • The Strategy identifies how the Trump Administration is helping restore the profitability of U.S. fishermen, especially Maine lobster fisheries, and protecting them from unfair competition, including by strengthening import certification and compliance, engaging in regulatory reform, pursuing partnerships with industry, and seeking expanded market access for American seafood abroad. 
• The Trump Administration is launching a new website, Seafood.gov – a one-stop destination for U.S. fishermen and consumers to access clear information about federal seafood initiatives and the science- and health-based reasons to choose American seafood.
• In another step forward for U.S. fishermen and America’s seafood industry as a whole, beginning today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing a voluntary “U.S. Caught Seafood” label so American consumers and those around the world can clearly identify seafood that is caught and harvested by American fishermen. The label is available for download on Seafood.gov. 
• Additionally, today the President is making available more than $5 billion in guaranteed loans through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to expand American dominance in modernized meat and seafood processing.

PUTTING AMERICA’S FISHERMEN FIRST: President Trump is committed to building the future of American seafood in the United States by ensuring that American fishermen, American workers, and American industry can thrive.

• For too long, Federal seafood policy focused on regulation and market contraction rather than production and growth. The America First Seafood Strategy reverses that approach.
• American fishermen operate under the highest standards in the world, while compliance costs climb and fishing grounds narrow due to burdensome overregulation from States and previous Administrations.
• In many waters outside the United States, illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, mislabeled imports, and heavily subsidized foreign seafood produced under weak labor, environmental, and safety standards have undercut American businesses that play by the rules and deliver the best products.
• Permitting barriers to private investment in working waterfronts, cold storage, and shoreside facilities have led to significant loss in U.S. seafood processing capacity.

DELIVERING HISTORIC WINS FOR AMERICA’S FISHERIES: These actions build on President Trump’s actions to revitalize the U.S. fishing industry, delivering historic economic growth and regulatory relief and prioritizing American seafood producers. These actions have unlocked billions of dollars in economic value and secured vital domestic supply chains.

• In April 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order restoring American seafood competitiveness through deregulation, combating unfair trade practices, enhancing domestic seafood production and exports, cooperative research, and creation of the America First Seafood Strategy.
• In April 2025, February 2026, and June 2026, President Trump issued proclamations restoring commercial fishing access in all Marine National Monuments, restoring hundreds of thousands square miles in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to America’s fishermen.
• In April 2026, President Trump’s USDA launched the Office of Seafood to help the American seafood industry navigate access to USDA programs and support.
• Through the strategic use of the Magnuson-Stevens Act and Executive action, NOAA has successfully removed red tape, reversed decades-old closures, and maximized harvest quotas.