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The American Sportfishing Association successfully filed a motion to intervene as a defendant in a federal lawsuit brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council. Litigation pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenges a revised process for managing recreational fisheries for summer flounder, scup and black sea bass, which ASA said took several years to develop.
“By intervening in this lawsuit, ASA can respond to the claims of NRDC and help to safeguard the interests of our members that are threatened in this case,” ASA president Glenn Hughes said in a statement. “If NRDC obtains the relief that it seeks in this lawsuit, it will take away economically valuable recreational fishing access to these sustainably managed fisheries and likely stifle consideration of similar innovative management approaches in other federally managed fisheries across the country.”
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