Southern Cross originally filed it lawsuit in the U.S. Court of International Trade but it was moved last year to federal court in Ft. Lauderdale, where the company received two shipments of seabass from a British-Norwegian fishing company in 2022. An attorney for Southern Cross, which doesn’t have a website and lists as its address a waterfront home in a Houston suburb, didn’t immediately respond to a request seeking comment. Environmental groups praised the ruling. “Allowing any country to sidestep agreed limits and fish freely undermines decades of hard-won international cooperation and threatens one of the last intact marine ecosystems on the planet,” said Andrea Kavanagh, who directs Antarctic and Southern Ocean work for Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy. — This story was supported by funding from the Walton Family Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content. __ Contact AP’s global investigative team at Investigative↕ap.org or https://www.ap.org/tips