United States Ninth Circuit
Natural Res. Def. Council v. Nat'l Marine Fisheries Serv., 03-16842
A fishing limit for darkblotched rockfish set by defendant is reversed where it was based on an impermissible construction of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
Appellate Information
- Argued 02/15/2005
- Decided 08/24/2005
- Published 08/24/2005
Judges
- FISHER, Circuit Judge., Before D.W. NELSON, W. FLETCHER and FISHER, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Andrew P. Caputo, Natural Resources Defense Counsel, San Francisco, CA; Sylvia F. Liu, Oceana, Washington, D.C., and Janis Searles, Oceana, Portland, OR, for the plaintiffs-appellants.
- For Appellees:
- David C. Shilton, Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees., James P. Walsh, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-intervenors-appellees.