WASHINGTON CRAB PRODUCERS, INC. v. MOSBACHER

No. 89-35595.

924 F.2d 1438 (1990)

WASHINGTON CRAB PRODUCERS, INC.; Metro Trollers, Inc.; Tacoma Poggie Club; Seattle Poggie Club, a non profit association; Washington Trollers Association; Pacific Trollers Association; Puget Sound Gillnetters, a non profit Washington corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Robert E. MOSBACHER, Secretary of Commerce, United States; State of Washington, acting through its Director of the Department of Fisheries, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Memorandum October 23, 1990.

Order and Opinion January 25, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis D. Reynolds and Rebekah R. Ross, Williams, Kastner & Gibbs, Seattle, Wash., for plaintiffs-appellants.

William B. Lazarus, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Douglas M. Ancona, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin., Seattle, Wash., for defendants-appellees.

Before HALL, THOMPSON and LEAVY, Circuit Judges.


ORDER

The memorandum disposition filed October 23, 1990, is redesignated as an authored opinion by Judge Leavy.

OPINION

LEAVY, Circuit Judge:

OVERVIEW

The eleven appellants are various commercial and recreational groups who fish off the coast of the State of Washington and land their catches in Washington ports. In 1989, they challenged the Secretary of Commerce's annual ocean harvest plan for 1988, including amendments to the...

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