Appellate Court Sides with North Carolina Shrimpers in Clean Water Act Lawsuit
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed a decision from a District Court that said North Carolina shrimp trawlers were not in violation of the Clean Water Act.
The Fisheries Reform Group could not prove that shrimp trawlers operating in North Carolina’s Pamlico Sound have violated the Clean Water Act but tossing bycatch overboard and disturbing sediment with their nets, Appellate Judge Julius Richardson found.
“Returning bycatch to the ocean is not discharging a pollutant, so throwing it overboard without a permit...
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