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Subject: Shark rebuilding plan - bad news, thanks to courts


Author:
Jim Day
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Date Posted: 938044154PDT
 Posted By: JesseJ
Date: Wednesday, September 22, at 4:01 p.m. at Coastal shark fishing.


This is from the most current issue of Saltwater Sportman magazine.
"COURT HALTS SHARK REBUILDING PLAN
In a ruling that further endangers already severely depleted Atlantic sharks, the U.S. District Court in Tampa, Florida, prevented the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) from implementing critical new shark conservation measures after NMFS' repeated failure to satisfy the court. The court order which related to a May 1997 lawsuit challenging Atlantic commercial shark quotas, indefinitely delays the implementation of new regulations that would have stopped overfishing, halted further decline and begun the process of rebuilding.
The result of this decision is that many shark species which have been severely depleted over the past two decades will continue to be overfished until this legal dispute is settled. "The court's order is a devastating blow to Atlantic shark conservation," stated Sonja Fordham, shark specialist with the Center for Marine Conservation. "Removing protections for depleted shark populations will delay a recovery that will already span decades.""

The thing I don't understand is how NMFS could not satisfy the court. Normally, it seems that NMFS is not friendly to conservation issues and leans more toward the commercial side of things.
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