Lohn

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, v. No. 05-35638 ROBERT LOHN, Northwest Regional D.C. No. Administrator of National Marine  CV-02-02505-RSL Fisheries Service; CARLOS M.

ORDER AND

GUTIERREZ, Secretary of

OPINION

Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce, Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Robert S. Lasnik, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 15, 2006—Portland, Oregon

Filed December 27, 2007

Before: Alfred T. Goodwin, Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, and Raymond C. Fisher, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge O’Scannlain

16837 16840 CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY v. LOHN

COUNSEL

Brent Plater, Center for Biological Diversity, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellant, and filed briefs.

M. Alice Thurston, Environment and Natural Resources Divi- sion, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, argued for the defendants-appellees; Sue Ellen Woolridge, Assistant Attorney General, Keith Rizzardi and David Shilton, Environ- ment…