CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY v. WILBUR ROSS and MASSACHUSETTS LOBSTERMEN'S ASSOCIATION, INC., et al.

Publication Year
2020
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A federal judge has invalidated a 2014 biological opinion issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service which had found that lobster fishing along the Atlantic coast would not have a significant impact on the right whale population. The court invalidated the opinion because it was issued without an estimate of how many whales would be taken, as required by the Endangered Species Act. [To accompany Federal Case Law Update "NMFS Failed to Protect Endangered Whales from Lobster Fishing" from Brooks Animal Law Digest Issue No. 27.]