Fishers’ Constitutional Suit Against Catch Limit Is Unsuccessful

Commercial fishers’ lost their bid to block a quota reduction on greater amberjack catch limits, as their constitutional challenge was dismissed by a Mississippi federal judge.

The fishers challenged the structure and composition of the Regional Fishery Management Council that made the decision. But it wasn’t the proximate cause of the fishers’ alleged injury because the quota reduction was ultimately signed off on by the assistant administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service, Judge Taylor B. McNeel of the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi said Wednesday.

NMFS is currently at the center of the US Supreme ...