Legal Opinion
Blue Water Fishermen's Ass'n v. National Marine Fisheries Service
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided September 30, 2002No. 00-12313-NGPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER RE: SUMMARY JUDGMENT
GERTNER, District Judge.
Pelagic longline fishermen target highly migratory species (“HMS”), primarily swordfish, tuna, and shark, from vessels on the open seas. Their modus operandi is to trail “longlines” — miles long, in fact— behind their vessels, from which floaters and hooks are suspended on “branch lines” into depths earmarked for HMS. At present, some 140 licensed pelagic longline vessels cruise the North Atlantic under the U.S. flag.
It is not uncommon, in the course of a longlining venture, for untargeted species to get caught up in the line…
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