ELR Citation: ELR 20622
No(s). 87-5239 (D.C. Cir. Feb 16, 1988)

The court holds that the Secretary of Commerce violated the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) in issuing a permit to take a fixed number of Dall's porpoises incidental to commercial salmon fishing, since the incidental taking of other marine mammals not included in the permit was a virtual certain...