ADMINISTRATIVE LAW — MAJOR QUESTIONS DOCTRINE — FOURTH CIRCUIT HOLDS BYCATCH REGULATION WOULD BE MAJOR QUESTION.

The article discusses the court case North Carolina Coastal Fisheries Reform Group v. Capt. Gaston LLC, wherein the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit applied semantic and substantive versions of the major questions doctrine. The court considered whether bycatch was a pollutant under the Clean Water Act. It discusses the authority of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate bycatch and the political and economic significance and federalism of major question doctrine.