District Court, W.D. Washington April 11, 2000, No. C98-492Z (Greenpeace v. National Marine Fisheries Service)

ORDER

ZILLY, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Greenpeace, American Oceans Campaign, and the Sierra Club (“plaintiffs”) brought suit under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) challenging the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS’s) North Pacific Fishery Management Plans for the groundfish fisheries in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Aaska.