A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE.

REGULATORY: Includes NOAA, FWS

FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE

Final rule determining endangered species status under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended, for the island marble butterfly (Euchloe ausonides insulanus) and designate critical habitat. Info here.

NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION

Final rule establishing annual catch limits and accountability measures in the main Hawaiian Islands for deepwater shrimp, precious corals, and gray jobfish (uku) in 2019-2021, and for Kona crab in 2019. Info here.