ELR Citation: ELR 20812
No(s). 95-1002 (4th Cir. Feb 2, 1996)

The court reverses a district court decision that replaced the U.S. Department of Commerce's (DOC's) 1994 commercial catch quota for summer flounder with a higher quota. The district court held that because the agency estimated the number of flounder entering the population in 1994—or "recruitment...