Maine Lobstermen's Ass'n, Inc. v. National Marine Fisheries Service

ELR Citation: 52 ELR 20107
No(s). 21-2509 (JEB) (D.D.C. Sep 8, 2022) (Boasberg, J.)

A district court denied summary judgment for a Maine lobstermen group in a challenge to NMFS' 2021 biological opinion (BiOp) that both authorized a series of federal fisheries, including the lobster fishery, and implemented a conservation framework designed to reduce the fisheries' impact on right w...