March 19, 2025 — As it approaches a decade in force, the overall impact of Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP) on defeating illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing – and how its new update to cover all species will help – remains unclear.
It has been eight years since NOAA Fisheries first created SIMP under the administration of then-U.S. President Barack Obama, and the agency has now decided it needs an update.