Tribe’s Pledge Not To Open Crab Fishery Suffices To Defeat TRO Requests

Mealey's (June 4, 2018, 4:24 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — Three Indian tribes are not entitled to a temporary restraining order to halt another tribe from fishing for crabs this summer in a disputed section of Puget Sound since the fourth tribe has vowed not to open the crab season this year in the section of ocean at issue, making the TRO requests moot, a Washington federal judge held June 1 (United States, et al. v. Washington, et al., No. C70-9213, Subproceeding No. 18-sp-01, W.D. Wash., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 92177)....