Save Our Seafood Act

Key Points

• Senator Murkowski and a group of bipartisan senators introduced this bill to allow seafood companies to hire as many foreign fish processors as they need without hitting the usual yearly limit on temporary work visas.
• It helps businesses that handle, freeze, pack, and label fish and shellfish by making sure they have enough seasonal workers to process the catch before it spoils.
• Currently, there is a national limit on these types of temporary work visas, which often leads to labor shortages in the seafood industry when the limit is reached early in the year.
• The change would apply to people working with all types of seafood, including fish, shrimp, and crab, but it does not include people who catch the fish on boats or work in retail stores.
• By making this exemption permanent, the bill aims to provide stability for coastal economies that rely on seasonal labor to get seafood from the docks to grocery stores and restaurants.

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