Pacific Seafood Sues NMFS to Overturn West Coast Groundfish IFQ Program and Quota Allocation Rules
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton December 8, 2015
On Friday Pacific Choice, a subsidiary of Pacific Seafoods, filed suit in the Northern District of California claiming that the West Coast groundfish rationalization program, under Amendments 20 and 21 to the Groundfish management plan, were done in a manner that violated a number of requirements of the Magnuson Act. The Plaintiffs ask the amendments be vacated, and that the court reinstate quota share that NOAA required be divested as of ...
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