NMFS decides against listing for West Coast mollusk

摘要

The National Marine Fisheries Service has decided not to list the pinto abalone under thernEndangered Species Act, according to an upcoming Federal Register notice.rnThe decision comes one year after the agency initiated a review of the mollusk, in response tornpetitions from the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Center for Biological Diversity.rnThe groups argued that the species faced possible extinction, due to threats such as fishingrnand climate change (Greenwire, Nov. 18, 2013).