Judge blocks some Chilean sea bass from Antarctica from importing amid fishing hatred at the bottom of the world

Miami (AP) – A federal judge in Florida blocked the import of high-priced fish in protected waters near the Antarctic, with U.S. regulators who believe they are being asked to block import hatred because Russia has hindered long-term protection efforts at the bottom of the world.

Judge David Leibovitz dismissed in a ruling on Monday The lawsuit was filed in 2022 Southern Cross Seafood claims that it allegedly was an arbitrary decision by the U.S. government to ban Chilean sea bass imports, which suffered improper economic harm.

The case was closely watched by protection organizations and the fishing industry, and it was derived from Russia refuses to capture limits Marine life near Antarctica.

Over the past four decades each year, 26 governments have brought together the Antarctic Marine Bioresources or CCAMLR committees to set capture limits for Chilean bass, according to the recommendations of the International Committee of Scientists.

But in 2021, the treaty organization’s Russian representative has refused to see it as part of a broader push by President Vladimir Putin’s administration to stop international cooperation on a range of issues. Russia’s rejection is an effective veto, because the committee works through consensus, which means that any government can take action.

The UK’s response to Russian gambit was to unilaterally provide Chilean sea bass with its own capture restrictions, below the unanticipated recommendation of the Science Commission – and issued its own license to fish the South Georgia coast, an inhabited island in the South Atlantic region. This kind of fire burns by environmentalists and U.S. officials, who fear it will encourage more serious abuse, undermine international fishery management.

Leibowitz’s ruling supports the U.S. government’s interpretation of its treaty obligations, warning that Britain has avoided overfishing in sensitive areas of the South Atlantic by the procedures laid down by the CCAMLR and undermined the nature of the treaty.

“Infinite fishing will never further protect the CCAMLR’s objectives to protect the Antarctic ecosystem,” he wrote. “A country is allowed to refuse to reach a consensus on the capture restrictions of specific fish before harvesting with unlimited amounts of fish that violate the express purpose of CCAMLR.”

The ruling effectively extended the existing ban on imports of all fishing boats licensed in the UK in South Georgia, which Argentina claims are the same. However, in the United States, the fish is still available from authorized suppliers in Australia, France and other countries, and Russia does not object to the proposed fishing restrictions.

Chilean sea bass from southern Georgia has been some of the highest priced seafood in supermarkets in the United States, and for decades, the fishery has been a poster kid in international cooperation, bringing together global forces such as Russia, China and the United States to protect the chili, crystal blue southern ocean from free fishing elsewhere in the high ocean.

The Southern Cross initially filed an IT lawsuit in the U.S. Court of International Trade, but it was handed over to the British federal court last year. Lauderdale, which received two batches of submarine from a British northern fishing company in 2022.

The Southern Cross lawyers did not have a website and used it as the address of a waterfront residence in the suburbs of Houston and did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Environmental groups praised the ruling.

“Any country allowed to evade consent restrictions and freely undermine decades of hard international cooperation and threaten one of the last complete marine ecosystems on the planet,” Andrea Kavanagh said.

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