Some people who protested against it include; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (FWS) and U.S. National Oceanic and atmosphere Administration. (NOAA)
- The law requires federal agencies, in consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and/or the NOAA Fisheries Service, to ensure that actions they authorize, fund, or carry out are not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of any listed species or result in the destruction or adverse modification of designated critical habitat of such species. Which is some part of the reason they took action.