Something’s getting stinky in Washington, where lawmakers are rushing to protect American-caught catfish from stiff new inspections they themselves set up just a few years ago.
It’s the latest flare-up in a decadelong feud that saw Congress insist on setting up a special inspection system for catfish, hoping to chase foreign imports out of the U.S. market — only to now balk when the same inspections are set to hit U.S.-caught fish.
Florida’s two senators wrote a letter this week asking that the American wild-caught catfish industry be exempt from the inspections, while Maryland’s governor earlier this month asked for an exemption for that state’s blue catfish in the Chesapeake watershed.
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