ELR Citation: 44 ELR 20015
No(s). 3:12-cv-00431 (D. Or. Jan 16, 2014) (Haggerty, J.)

A district court held that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) violated NEPA and the ESA in approving certain operations at a fish hatchery on Oregon's Sandy River. NMFS regulations provide an exemption for the otherwise unlawful take of anadromous fish caused by a hatchery's artificial pro...