CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION v. EVANS

Civil Action No. 01-1134(GK).

203 F.Supp.2d 27 (2002)

CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Donald EVANS, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

April 9, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell David Duncan, Coburn & Schertler, Washington, DC, Eric A. Bilsky, Washington, DC, for Conservation Law Foundation.

Eric A. Bilsky, Washington, DC, for Center for Marine Conservation, National Audubon Society, Natural Resources Defense Council.

Samuel D. Rauch, Adam D. Issenberg, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, Lyn Jacobs, U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental Division, Washington, DC, for William Daley, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service.

Lyn Jacobs, U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental Division, Washington, DC, Adam D. Issenberg, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, for Donald Evans.

David Earl Frulla, Brand & Frulla, P.C., Washington, DC, for The Associated Fisheries of Maine, Inc., The City of Portland, Maine, The City of New Bedford, Massachusetts, The Trawlers Survival Fund.

Eldon VanCleef Greenberg, Garvey, Schubert & Barer, Washington, DC, for Northeast Seafood Coalition.

Kirsten Engel, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Attorney Generals Office, Boston, MA, for Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Mark A. Randlett, Office of the Attorney General, Augusta, ME, for State of Maine.

James L. O'Dea, O'Dea & Associates, Washington, DC, for Paul Parker, Craig A. Pendleton, Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance, Inc., Stonington Fisheries Alliance, Saco Bay Alliance, Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen's Association, Inc.

Jennifer Patterson, Office of Attorney General/NH, Concord, NH, Peter C.L. Roth, State of New Hampshire/Attorney General, Concord, NH, for the State of New Hampshire.

Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Providence, RI for the State of Rhode Island.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

KESSLER, District Judge.

Plaintiffs Conservation Law Foundation, Center for Marine Conservation, National Audubon Society, and Natural Resources Defense Council ("Plaintiffs") brought suit against the United States Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Marine Fisheries Service ("Defendants"), charging that Defendants failed to prevent overfishing and minimize bycatch...

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