Legal Opinion
Southern Offshore Fishing Ass'n v. Daley
District Court, M.D. Florida
Decided February 24, 1998No. 97-1134-CIV-T-23CPublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
MERRYDAY, District Judge.
The plaintiffs, a coalition of shark fishermen and shark fishing organizations, challenge the 1997 commercial harvest quotas imposed by the United States Secretary of Commerce and his designees (“Secretary”) for the capture of Atlantic sharks currently under federal management. The plaintiffs allege that the administrative decision is unsupported by the record and is contrary to law. I conclude that the Secretary acted within his regulatory discretion in setting the quotas but failed to conduct a proper analysis to determine the quotas’ economic effect on small…
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