A third lawsuit, alleging a new experimental management plan for the New England groundfishery has legal flaws, has been filed by an environmental group — but this suit, unlike the other two, says the plan's fishing limits and conservation measures fall too short.
The suit by Oceana complains that the federal government has no good way to limit the waste of fish caught and discarded as bycatch, and asks the federal courts to plug the alleged loopholes.
Filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on May 7, the suit pushes for greater controls and more rigorous conservation — a push in the opposite direction of those taken in two fishing industry suits filed in the last week, which petitioned for relief from fishing limits said to be ruinous.
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