CIT Drops Injunction Banning Mexican Fish Imports After NMFS Sets Wider Embargo
The Court of International Trade is lifting a now-moot injunction banning imports from Mexican fisheries that rely on practices that threaten the vaquita with extinction, it said in a decision issued April 22. The Natural Resources Defense Council voluntarily moved…
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to dismiss the case after the National Marine Fisheries Service -- in a reversal from the nearly two-year defense mounted by the government -- implemented a ban even further reaching than the advocacy group had sought via its lawsuit (see 2003050043). The injunction had been in place since July 2018 (see 1807260039). Noting the date that his ruling was issued -- Earth Day -- CIT Judge Gary Katzmann called for even more “vigorous international enforcement” against continued threats to the vaquita. “The panda of the sea, the little cow, cannot be replaced,” he concluded the decision, and the case.