ELR Citation: 53 ELR 20045
No(s). 3:22-cv-00117-JD (N.D. Cal. Mar 14, 2023) (Donato, J.)

A district court granted in part an environmental group's motion for summary judgment in a challenge to NMFS' 2021 permit authorizing the incidental taking of ESA-listed humpback whales in a sablefish fishery off the Pacific coast. The group argued NMFS violated the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMP...