WILD FISH CONSERVANCY v. JENNIFER QUAN, ALASKA TROLLERS ASSOCIATION, and STATE OF ALASKA
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted [pdf attached: 9th Cir Salmon Order] in part a motion to stay a lower court ruling vacating portions of a National Marine Fisheries Service Biological Opinion that authorized the “take” of Southern Resident Killer Whales and Chinook salmon in connection with the commercial harvesting of Chinook salmon. The Ninth Circuit order comes less than two weeks before summer fishing season is scheduled to commence and will allow commercial Chinook salmon troll fishing in southeast Alaska this summer while the Endangered Species Act (ESA) case is under appeal.
[To accompany Case Law Update "Ninth Circuit Order Allows Commercial Chinook Salmon Troll Fishing to Move Forward in Southeast Alaska Pending ESA Case Appeal ” from Brooks Animal Law Digest Issue No. 196]