NMFS Working on Plan to Block Mexican Fish Imports Subject to Court Injunction
The National Marine Fisheries Service is developing a plan to ban fish and fish products from Mexican fisheries that use gillnets near the endangered vaquita porpoises as required by a recent Court of International Trade ruling (see 1807260039), said Zak…
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Smith, a senior attorney at the National Resources Defense Council. "It is my understanding that the government is not yet imposing a ban on imports, but that the National Marine Fisheries Service is working on the process for blocking the products subject to the import ban, while allowing other imports to enter," Smith said by email. The NRDC is one of the animal conservation groups that brought the lawsuit. CIT approved a preliminary injunction on July 26 that requires the government to ban imports of certain fish products from Mexico while the case is pending. The NMFS didn't comment.