Legal Opinion
Alaska Wildlife Alliance v. Jensen
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 6, 1997No. Nos. 95-35151, 95-35188PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION EUGENE A WRIGHT, Circuit Judge.
We must decide the extent to which federal statutes restrict commercial fishing in Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park (the Park). We hold that plaintiffs Alaska Wildlife' Alliance and American Wildlands have standing to challenge commercial fishing in the Park’s waters. We further hold that commercial fishing is statutorily prohibited in the Park’s designated wilderness areas, but not in its non-wilderness areas.
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Plaintiffs sued the Secretary of the Interi- or and officials of the National Park Service, claiming that commercial fishing in the Park…
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