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A federal judge has ruled in favor of the National Marine Fisheries Service and industry in a case in which Oceana and Greenpeace challenged...

Environmental groups Oceana and Greenpeace this week filed suit against the National Marine Fisheries Service in a bid to block expanded co...

Last month, three independent experts sharply criticized a federal "biological opinion" on the Steller sea lion. The National M...

Alaska Sen. Mark Begich, chairman of the Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard, has gotten wind of those independent...

A line in the North Pacific divides the Steller sea lion population into eastern and western "distinct population segments." This ...

Here's a quick update on a couple of big court cases brought against federal fishery regulators. First, processors challenging the new...

Federal Judge Timothy Burgess today declined to lift controversial commercial fishing restrictions the federal government imposed to protect...

We have a flurry of new filings in the Steller sea lion case. As you'll recall, federal Judge Timothy Burgess last month upheld commerci...

Here's a press release from the Marine Conservation Alliance: Jan. 20, 2012 MCA applauds portion of ruling in Steller sea lion case A vi...

Here is a statement from the National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Regional Office, on the Steller sea lion ruling: "Overall, we ar...

Deckboss reckons we'll hear quite a bit of reaction to the big Steller sea lion ruling. Here's the first of it, from conservation gr...

The judge indicates on page 54 of his decision that despite the failure of federal fishery regulators to prepare an environmental impact sta...

Here is the judge's overall finding in the Steller sea lion case: As discussed in detail below, although the Court sympathizes with the ...

A federal judge has ruled substantially in favor of the National Marine Fisheries Service, and against industry groups and the state, in a c...

On Wednesday afternoon, a bunch of attorneys met in a federal courtroom in Anchorage to argue the lawsuit over fishing restrictions imposed ...

Deckboss is sure you've not forgotten that the state as well as a big segment of the Alaska fishing industry are suing the National Mari...

The House Natural Resources Committee today held a hearing in Seattle on how "unsubstantiated" federal science on the Steller sea ...

Deckboss apologizes for his silence the past few days. Had some nonfish business to deal with. To catch up, here are a few news nuggets I...

The federal fish cops are investigating the possible illegal killing of marine mammals near Skagway. "Since January, the carcasses of t...

A federal judge has denied the Aleut Corp.'s motion to intervene in the Steller sea lion lawsuit. The state and various industry groups...