What is the clean water act and how does it affect the fisheries industry?
Ask anyone who has spent a career on the water, whether hauling in nets off the Gulf Coast or running the books for a seafood export company , and they will tell you the same thing: clean water is not an abstract environmental talking point. It is the difference between a healthy catch and an empty hold. Few pieces of American legislation have shaped that reality as much as the Clean Water Act, a law that most people outside the fishing and shipping trades barely think about, yet one that quietl