NOAA Reviewing CIT Ruling on Mexican Fish Imports
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is going over its options in response to a Court of International Trade preliminary injunction that requires the government to ban certain fish from Mexico (see 1807260039), a National Marine Fisheries Service spokeswoman said.…
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NOAA, which houses the NMFS, "is reviewing the ruling from the Court of International Trade and determining next steps," she said. The court approved the preliminary injunction in a lawsuit over protecting vaquita porpoises. The CIT ruling said the government must "ban the importation of all fish and fish products from Mexican commercial fisheries that use gillnets within the vaquita’s range."