Federation of Independent Seafood Harvesters v. Oregon Fish & Wildlife Commission

All-Coast Fisherman’s Marketing Association and the Oregon Environmental Council petition for judicial review of an Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission order that Crown Zellerbach Corporation (Crown) be issued permits, under ORS 508.700 to 508.745, for a private salmon hatchery. The permits authorize Crown to construct and operate what the Commission describes as a "release/recapture salmon facility” at Tillamook Bay, into which Crown proposed to release each year up to five million each of chinook and coho salmon smolts.

One of the principal factual disputes at the hearing held on the permit…