Winter

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE 

COUNCIL, INC.; THE INTERNATIONAL

FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE;

CETACEAN SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL;

LEAGUE FOR COASTAL PROTECTION;

OCEAN FUTURES SOCIETY; JEAN-

MICHEL COUSTEAU,

Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. No. 07-56157 DONALD C. WINTER, Secretary of D.C. No. the Navy; UNITED STATES CV-07-00335-FMC DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY; CARLOS  Central District of California,

M. GUTIERREZ, Secretary of the

Department of Commerce; Santa Ana

NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES ORDER AND

SERVICES; WILLIAM HOGARTH, OPINION

Assistant Administrator for Fisheries of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration; CONRAD C LAUTENBACHER, JR., Administrator of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Defendants-Appellants.  Filed August 31, 2007

Before: Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Consuelo M. Callahan, and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Kleinfeld; Dissent by Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr.

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