NCLA Appeals District Court Ruling Upholding Atlantic Herring Industry-Funded Monitoring Rule
The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) appealed a recent US District Court decision that upheld a rule forcing commercial Atlantic herring fishermen to pay for at-sea monitoring.
NCLA will ask the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to reverse the errant district court decision, set aside the Herring Rule, and vacate the Industry-Funded Monitoring (IFM) Omnibus Amendment issued by the New England Fishery Management Council (NEFMC), it said in a statement. To enforce the Amendment...
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