United States Fourth Circuit

In a case involving commercial boat captains who were charged with violating the Lacey Act after they caught Atlantic striped bass in federal waters and later sold them, the District Court's grant of defendants' motions to dismiss the indictments based on an exemption under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, 16 U.S.C. section 3377(a), is reversed where the text of the plan created by the Commission and referenced by the Bass Act in fact regulates only state coastal waters, and accordingly does not regulate fishing in federal waters.

Appellate Information

• Published 2016/07/05

Judges

• PER CURIAM

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel