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United State’s 2025 Marine Mammal Protection Act Comparability Finding Determinations for Harvesting Nations

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*Vietnam is on List 2: Nations denied comparability findings for some fisheries“

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NOAA Fisheries announced its Marine Mammal Protection Act comparability determinations in the Federal Register, covering about 2,500 fisheries across 135 nations. Of these, 240 fisheries from 46 nations were denied comparability findings, restricting their ability to export to the United States.

In August 2025, NOAA Fisheries announced its 2025 Marine Mammal Protection Act comparability finding determinations in the Federal Register. These determinations cover approximately 2,500 fisheries in 135 nations seeking to export fish and fish products to the United States. Comparability finding determinations are made for each nation on a fishery-by-fishery basis. A total of 240 fisheries from 46 nations were denied comparability findings. 

NOAA Fisheries conducted a detailed analysis of each comparability finding application submitted by harvesting nations. Details regarding each nation’s comparability finding determination are categorized in the lists below. Each harvesting nation’s Comparability Finding Application Final Report can be accessed by clicking on the nation under Lists 1, 2, and 3 below. Additional documents detailing NOAA Fisheries’ evaluation process, the fisheries denied and granted comparability findings for each nation, and the trade information associated with fishery denials (including Harmonized Tariff Codes) can be found at the bottom of this page.

Nations whose fisheries were denied comparability findings are prohibited from importing fish and fish product from those fisheries into the United States beginning January 1, 2026, and may reapply for a comparability finding for the affected fisheries at any time after January 1, 2026. More information on seafood import restrictions and how they will be implemented under this program, is available here.

Singapore Unravelling the secret files of Separation: Declassified

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Channelnewsasia.com It is an image etched in the minds of generations – the black-and-white footage of Lee Kuan Yew blinking back tears on Aug 9, 1965.  But what else lay behind that seminal moment and the familiar story of Singapore’s separation from Malaysia? Over five months, we sifted through hundreds of declassified files in the archives of Singapore, the United Kingdom and Australia. These were telegrams marked “top secret” – unvarnished correspondence between British officials; private and frank memos between leaders; and raw, very personal letters perhaps never meant for public eyes. Some of what we found in the archives was jaw-dropping.
A letter from the night before separation by the British High Commissioner, described how he raced to find the Tunku, pleading for a postponement of the announcement. There were reports about threats to arrest Lee,  and later, a communist plot to assassinate him. We found a letter in which an Indonesian diplomat expressed “glee” at the separation, mocking Malaysia with an “I told you so”. And perhaps even more shocking to us, the revelation that the British had secretly stored nuclear weapons at Tengah Air Base as part of its Cold War strategy.
The challenge wasn’t finding material but narrowing it down. We focused on the 100 days surrounding independence. Our litmus test for a “must-include” point? If it made us text each other with a “OMG, read this”. But at the heart of the series is the people behind the letters and behind the history-making decisions – their anxieties, their doubts, their feelings of humiliation and betrayal. And decades on, the poignancy of their children and grandchildren reading the words they had written. We hope Separation: Declassified lets you see a familiar story anew – not as a chapter in a textbook, but as lived, human history. Yuxin Peh and Clarisse Goh Producers, Separation: Declassified