MIDWATER TRAWLERS CO-OP. v. MOSBACHER

Civ. A. No. 89-0498-LFO.

727 F.Supp. 12 (1989)

MIDWATER TRAWLERS COOPERATIVE, Plaintiff, v. Robert A. MOSBACHER, Secretary, United States Department of Commerce, Defendant, Greenpeace USA and Yukon-Kuskokwim Fisheries Task Force Intervenor-Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

December 1, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eldon V.C. Greenberg, Dina R. Lassow, Galloway & Greenberg, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.

Diane M. Connolly, Dept. of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C. (Robert Taylor, Constance Sathre, Craig O'Connor, Office of the General Counsel, Nat. Oceanic & Atmospheric admin. of counsel), for defendant.

Eric Smith, Anchorage, Alaska, for intervenor-defendants.


MEMORANDUM

OBERDORFER, District Judge.

Plaintiff is a cooperative formed by 33 United States-flag fishing vessel owners in Alaska who harvest groundfish in the Bering Sea/Aleutian Island area and sell their catch to foreign-flag processing vessels. Plaintiff claims that the fishing limitations set by the Secretary of Commerce for that area are artificially low and therefore violate certain provisions of the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act...

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