In the lawsuit, the state and borough argue that they have suffered “actual, concrete injuries” as a result of ringed seals’ threatened listing. (via AlaskaBeacon)
large swathes of the northern Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea and some nearshore portions of the Beaufort Sea.
Through those years, the state, North Slope Borough, oil industry and others have been working to prevent or overturn those listings, with last week’s lawsuit as the most recent step. It contends that NMFS has used flawed reasoning concerning a Bering and Chukchi ringed seal population that numbered 470,000 as of a decade ago, the lawsuit said. The listing was approved and upheld despite “the Arctic ringed seal’s extremely large population and circumpolar range, as well as its documented resilience to historical habitat and climate variation,” the lawsuit said.
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