A federal judge in Florida has blocked the imports of a high-priced Chilean sea bass from protected waters near Antarctica. Judge David Leibowitz’s dismissal Monday of a lawsuit filed by Texas-based Southern Cross Seafoods effectively sided with U.S. regulators who argued they were hamstrung by a diplomatic feud triggered by Russia’s obstruction of longstanding conservation efforts. Since 2021 Russian representatives to the Commission on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources have refused to sign off on catch limits set by scientists. In response the U.K. unilaterally set its own catch limits and licenses to fish off the coast of the uninhabited South Georgia island it controls in the south Atlantic. A federal judge in Florida has blocked the imports of a high-priced Chilean sea bass from protected waters near Antarctica. Judge David Leibowitz’s dismissal Monday of a lawsuit filed by Texas-based Southern Cross Seafoods effectively sided with U.S. regulators who argued they were hamstrung by a diplomatic feud triggered by Russia’s obstruction of longstanding conservation efforts. Since 2021 Russian representatives to the Commission on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources have refused to sign off on catch limits set by scientists. In response the U.K. unilaterally set its own catch limits and licenses to fish off the coast of the uninhabited South Georgia island it controls in the south Atlantic. AP Technology and Science
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