IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 582 
Recognizing the South Carolina Aquarium’s Sustainable Seafood Initiative 
and the benefits it provides to coastal South Carolina, South Carolina 
fishermen, South Carolina restaurants, and the consumers of seafood 
in coastal South Carolina, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 27, 2007 
Mr. BROWN of South Carolina (for himself, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, 
Mr. BARRETT of South Carolina, Mr. INGLIS of South Carolina, Mr. 
SPRATT, and Mr. CLYBURN) submitted the following resolution; which 
was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition 
to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently 
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi-
sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the South Carolina Aquarium’s Sustainable Sea-
food Initiative and the benefits it provides to coastal 
South Carolina, South Carolina fishermen, South Caro-
lina restaurants, and the consumers of seafood in coastal 
South Carolina, and for other purposes. 
Whereas seafood is a good, healthy source of protein that has 
been shown to have many beneficial effects on human 
health; 
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Whereas studies have shown that seafood consumption has 
the potential to increase brainpower, reduce the likelihood 
of strokes, and reduce the impacts of Alzheimer’s disease; 
Whereas the national average of seafood consumption is only 
16.5 pounds per person per year, and while this has in-
creased in recent years, in the last year the world average 
was over 36 pounds per year; 
Whereas the United States currently has an annual trade 
deficit in seafood of more than $9,000,000,000; 
Whereas 80 percent of the seafood consumed in the United 
States comes from foreign sources; 
Whereas South Carolina contains 2,876 miles of tidal shore-
line, 10,000 square miles of Continental Shelf, 500,000 
acres of tidal bottoms, and 504,450 acres of salt marsh 
(constituting 20 percent of the East Coast total); 
Whereas the Charleston Bump and ocean upwellings along 
the South Carolina coast allow nutrients to increase the 
productivity of South Carolina’s coastal ocean waters, 
which supports important commercial and recreational 
fisheries; 
Whereas South Carolina boasts more than 200 varieties of 
fish and shellfish and approximately 30 of these are com-
mercially harvested; 
Whereas the commercial seafood industry in South Carolina 
landed almost 10,000,000 pounds of seafood in 2005 and 
the average dock-side value has been almost $25,000,000; 
Whereas local fishermen buy their bait, fuel, groceries, and 
other supplies, berth their boats at local marinas, and pa-
tronize other local businesses that are necessary for the 
fishermen to do their jobs, so the cumulative benefit to 
the local economy of coastal South Carolina is signifi-
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•HRES 582 IH 
cantly more than the ex-vessel value of the seafood 
caught; 
Whereas the South Carolina Aquarium and the Sustainable 
Seafood Initiative, which represents a pioneering consor-
tium of local fisheries, conservation partners, and res-
taurants under the direction and management of the 
South Carolina Aquarium, has created a program to en-
courage the consumption of healthy, high quality locally 
caught seafood; 
Whereas the Sustainable Seafood Initiative bases its rec-
ommendations on those seafood species that are caught 
under the regulations developed by the National Marine 
Fisheries Service, the South Atlantic Fishery Manage-
ment Council, and the South Carolina Department of 
Natural Resources, and recognizes that not all fishermen 
in the world follow the regulations that United States 
fishermen are required to follow; 
Whereas such program promotes the use of locally caught, 
sustainable, and well-managed fish in South Carolina’s 
restaurants, and now has a total 80 partners; 
Whereas such program seeks clarity in the identification and 
marketing of seafood to South Carolina consumers 
through a public education program both in the Aquar-
ium and through its Web site; 
Whereas the program supports the economic health of envi-
ronmentally friendly commercial fisheries, bringing sus-
tainable local seafood to the people of South Carolina; 
and 
Whereas the Sustainable Seafood Initiative benefits local fish-
ermen, as well as their local suppliers, local restaurants, 
and consumers: Now, therefore, be it 
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Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) supports the consumption of healthy sea-
food; 
(2) supports local fishermen and fishing com-
munities; 
(3) supports the education of seafood con-
sumers; 
(4) supports efforts to encourage the consump-
tion of locally caught seafood products; and 
(5) supports the Sustainable Seafood Initiative 
of the South Carolina Aquarium. 
Æ 
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