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Sharks

A federal judge granted summary judgment to Oceana Inc.’s challenge of the National Marine Fisheries Service’s protections for the dusky shark, finding it failed to consider relevant evidence or implement measures to constrain the number of sharks accidentally caught as bycatch.

WASHINGTON — A federal judge granted summary judgment to Oceana Inc.’s challenge of the National Marine Fisheries Service’s protections for the dusky shark, finding it failed to consider relevant evidence or implement measures to constrain the number of sharks accidentally caught as bycatch.

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