A small Texas seafood importer has sued the federal government for blocking a shipment of fish from protected waters near Antarctica — an ocean at the center of a diplomatic feud dividing the normally allied U.S. and U.K. governments.
Southern Cross Seafoods said in a complaint filed last week in the U.S. International Trade Court that the decision to bar importation of Chilean sea bass was arbitrary, illegal and would cause significant economic harm to its business.
