Tuberville, Britt warn Biden against order threatening Alabama’s catfish industry

Both of Alabama’s U.S. Senators warned the Biden administration of the disastrous economic outlook for U.S. catfish farmers and processers if it adopts a preliminary decision to reduce its responsibility over imported catfish from Vietnam. In a letter to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, the Senators said the administration should reverse a move – which they point out – abandons decades of precedent that set a level playing field for the U.S. farm-raised catfish industry. “Alabama is the number two state in American catfish production, raising one-third of the world’s catfis