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    Gloucester Seafood Display Auction is Sold
    GLOUCESTER, Mass.-- Sept. 7, 2011 -- The Ciulla family, which started the Gloucester Seafood Display Auction 11 years ago, and got a Cabinet-level apology in May for a decade of government law enforcement harassment, said today they have sold the business.
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    Customers asking grocers for more local seafood product
    Change is afloat at the seafood counter of A&P. The product mix is being tweaked to include more local product caught on day boats out of Long Island and Chesapeake Bay. It is part of an effort to improve the department’s quality, with the goal of netting more customers in the process.
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    Old, gray scallops in closed area irk fishermen
    NEW BEDFORD — Too much, too late. That is the verdict from many city scallopers returning from trips to some portions of the recently opened Closed Area 1.

    Fishermen are finding much of their dredges filled with larger and older scallops, many of which they simply toss right back into the sea.
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    Seafood industry, Congress members fight migrant worker pay boost
    The U.S. seafood industry and members of Congress are fighting a federal order that will boost the wages of tens of thousands of migrant workers as much as 30 percent.
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    New Bedford scalloper: 'It looked like a city on the ocean'
    NEW BEDFORD — The city may have slumbered in the pre-dawn hours Friday, but down on the docks it was all rattle and hum.
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33 Fishing Community Members Say Permit Bank, Giacalone are pluses for Gloucester

This permit bank is a true local treasure for our fishing community and related businesses. Its existence has been one of the only positive things to come to this fishing community in decades.