Beveridge & Diamond Associates Deepti Gage (Washington, DC) and Kirstin Gruver (Seattle) joined Legal Talk Today podcast, part of Legal Talk Network, for the episode “Fishy Regulations.”

They spoke with producer Laurence Colletti about the current regulatory and legislative landscape surrounding fisheries and aquaculture, including governmental and consumer demands for sustainability, the current state of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the impacts of illegal and unreported fishing as well as marine litter and micro plastics, green marketing regulations’ effects on aquaculture, and Executive Order 14008, “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.”

Listen to the entire podcast on Legal Talk Today, and read more about the topics discussed in the podcast in our news alert, “Key Trends Impacting Fisheries and Aquaculture in the United States.”

Beveridge & Diamond's Fisheries and Aquaculture industry group advises on the broad range of environmental, health, and safety issues impacting the fishing and aquaculture industries’ facilities, operations, and products. A number of our lawyers have biology or ecology backgrounds, personal experience working with fisheries, and unique perspectives from years of government service. B&D offers a physical presence in major fishing markets, as well as experience with fisheries off all U.S. coasts and in major freshwater bodies across the country.