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David versus Goliath – in the dark

August 14, 2026

The Supreme Court did not just strike down the government’s vessel monitoring system. It exposed a staggering failure of defense. By a 13-2 vote, the high court junked Fisheries Administrative Order (FAO) 266 because the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) failed the “rational basis test.” Regulators simply could not produce the hard empirical