Bill Text: OR HJM3 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Urging Congress to support marketing of Oregon seafood.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-05-14 - Filed with Secretary of State. [HJM3 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2013-HJM3-Introduced.html

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     77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session

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                     House Joint Memorial 3

Sponsored by Representative BOONE (Presession filed.)

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Urges Congress to support marketing of Oregon seafood.

                         JOINT MEMORIAL
To the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United
  States of America, in Congress assembled:
  We, your memorialists, the Seventy-seventh Legislative Assembly
of the State of Oregon, in legislative session assembled,
respectfully represent as follows:
  Whereas Oregon seafood products face constantly increasing
domestic competition from imported seafood products, with more
than 80 percent of the total seafood consumed in the United
States currently originating in foreign countries; and
  Whereas effective domestic marketing of Oregon seafood requires
a constant, consistent and long-term marketing presence,
especially in times of oversupply and new competition, in order
for Oregon seafood to reach a greater market; and
  Whereas current expenditures for the domestic promotion of
Oregon seafood are not sufficient to effectively develop the
thriving markets that sustainable Oregon seafood products merit,
especially when confronted with nationally supported promotional
programs aimed at United States consumers by key rival producer
countries; and
  Whereas using seafood product import revenues to market seafood
from the United States will preserve fishing and seafood
processing jobs and processing capacity in the United States and
will ensure the availability of domestic seafood for consumers;
and
  Whereas throughout recent history, each spill or leak
associated with the transportation or production of oil
negatively affects the seafood industry through the closure of
commercial and recreational fishing operations, the destruction
of wildlife and natural habitat or loss of market share; and
  Whereas a new National Seafood Marketing Fund designed to
promote and develop seafood produced in the United States would
help the United States seafood industry recoup damages related to
oil spills that contribute to decreased market demand for
seafood; and
  Whereas a small portion of oil revenues is a logical source of
funding for a National Seafood Marketing Fund as mitigation for
real damages suffered by the seafood industry and coastal
communities; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:
  That we, the members of the Seventy-seventh Legislative
Assembly, respectfully request that the Congress of the United
States allocate moneys generated from federal marine and fishery
product import tariffs for the domestic marketing of Oregon
seafood; and be it further
  Resolved, That the Congress of the United States is urged to
pass legislation dedicating a significant portion of marine and
fishery product import tariffs to a National Seafood Marketing
Fund to promote domestic seafood products that face competition
from foreign imports; and be it further
  Resolved, That a copy of this memorial shall be sent to the
Senate Majority Leader, to the Speaker of the House of
Representatives and to each member of the Oregon Congressional
Delegation.
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