Fisheries Service Plan Is Rejected by Judge
A federal judge has ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service violated laws that require it to protect the Pacific ground fish and failed to address the dumping of dead and dying fish at sea.
The Natural Resources Defense Council and the Ocean Conservancy sued the fisheries service last June, saying it wasn’t doing enough to find out how many ground fish are “bycatch,” or fish that are caught and discarded at sea because they aren’t what fishermen are seeking.
The judge’s ruling means the federal service and the Pacific Fishery Management Council must rewrite the plan for management of the fishery.
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