ELR Citation: 53 ELR 20093
No(s). 22-5238 (D.C. Cir. Jun 16, 2023)

The D.C. Circuit reversed summary judgment for NMFS in a Maine lobstermen group's challenge to the Service's 2021 biological opinion (BiOp) that authorized a series of federal fisheries, including the lobster fishery, and implemented a conservation framework designed to reduce the fisheries' impact ...