Links to the court documents submitted by the Fisheries Survival Fund
relative to their
intervention on the side of the Department of Commerce in a lawsuit
filed by the Conservation Law Foundation
and American Oceans Campaign against the present sea scallop management
program. We will be adding
documents to this section as they become available.
Link to the Conservation Law Foundation/American Oceans Campaign complaint
Link to INTERVENOR’S MEMORANDUM IN OPPOSITION TO MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY
INJUNCTION
The Fisheries Survival Fund submission explaining it's opposition to the Plaintiffs’ (Conservation Law
Foundation and American Oceans Campaign) Motion seeking to prevent the Department of Commerce's
implementation of a limited rotational scallop fishery in Georges Bank Groundfish Closed Area I and the
Nantucket Lightship Groundfish Closed Area.
Link
to MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES SUPPORTING MOVANT FISHERIES SURVIVAL
FUND’S MOTION TO INTERVENE IN THIS ACTION
Information submitted supporting the Fisheries Survival Fund's right to intervene in the suit filed by the
Conservation Law Foundation and American Oceans Campaign.
Link to FEDERAL DEFENDANT'S MEMORANDUM IN OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF'S MOTION
FOR
PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
Link to the declaration of Marjorie Orman (Director of the Fisheries Survival
Fund) regarding the CLF/AOC suit.
Link to the declaration of Herman Bruce (scallop fisherman and vessel owner)
regarding the CLF/AOC suit.
Link to U.S, District Judge Kessler's ruling denying the Conservation Law
Foundation's Motion for a
Preliminary Injunction to keep the closed areas closed to scallops.