date:Mar 31, 2014
A U.S. federal court has ruled that the American government violated its own law by failing to properly manage the red snapper fishery in the Gulf of Mexico.
The court ruled in Washington on five counts in favor of 21 commercial fishing plaintiffs against the U.S. Department of Commerce, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). The court ruled that NMFS violated several mandates to properly manage red snapper stocks.
The 51-page ruli