NGO's File Suit To Ban Mexican Seafood Imports That Endanger the Vaquita
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Seafood News] by Amanda Buckle - December 26, 2017
Conservation-focused NGOs have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in an effort to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise. On December 21 the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Animal Welfare Institute filed the suit after the Trump administration failed to respond to a call on the ban of imports of seafood caught with any type of gillnet from Mexico's Gulf of California.
"We've asked politely that the U.S. government take action to save the vaquita by banning Mexican seafood imports ...
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