A federal judge said Wednesday horseshoe crabs cannot be commercially harvested from a national wildlife refuge in South Carolina to benefit a pharmaceutical company, ruling in favor of an environmental group that argued the federal government improperly authorized the activity.
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Judge Halts Crab Harvest In SC Wildlife Refuge
Law360 (May 12, 2021, 8:25 PM EDT) A federal judge said Wednesday horseshoe crabs cannot be commercially harvested from a national wildlife refuge in South Carolina to benefit a pharmaceutical company, ruling in favor of an environmental group that argued the federal government improperly authorized the activity.
Defenders of Wildlife won a preliminary injunction in its suit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, arguing that the government was required under the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997 to issue a special permit authorizing the harvesting but did not do so.