ANGLERS CONSERVATION NETWORK v. PRITZKER

No. 14-5304.

809 F.3d 664 (2016)

ANGLERS CONSERVATION NETWORK, et al., Appellants v. Penny Sue PRITZKER, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided January 5, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger M. Fleming argued the cause for appellants. With him on the briefs were Erica A. Fuller and Stephen E. Roady .

Robert J. Lundman , Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, argued the cause for appellees. With him on the briefs were John C. Cruden , Assistant Attorney General, and Brian C. Toth , Attorney. Thekla Hansen-Young , Attorney, entered an appearance.

Opinion for the Court filed by Senior Circuit Judge RANDOLPH.


Plaintiffs brought this lawsuit claiming that federal agencies unlawfully neglected to manage stocks of river herring (alewives and blueback herring), and shad (American shad and their smaller relatives, hickory shad) in the Atlantic Ocean from New York to North Carolina.

These are schooling ocean fish. In early...

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