date:Mar 31, 2014
the fall as usual despite getting landings reports in June showing recreational fisheries had gone over previous quotas by 2 million pounds.
If NMFS's estimates in previous years had come at all close to accurately predicting recreational landings, or if NMFS had some credible reason to believe that 2013 would be different, the court might have been limited to sympathizing with plaintiffs' frustrations at watching an agency fail to accomplish a statutory mandate, Judge Barbara Rothstein wrote i