Fishing industry says attacks on monitors rare
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NEW BEDFORD — Members of the local fishing industry Monday said assaults by fishermen on the federal monitors who observe the catch are extremely rare.
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Fishing boat captain pleads guilty to assault
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A Rhode Island man working as a captain of a Massachusetts fishing
vessel has pleaded guilty to assaulting two federal monitors posted on
his boat to collect fishing data.
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Notorious Maine fisherman going back to federal prison
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BANGOR, Maine — A Bass Harbor fisherman with a history of criminal
convictions is being sent back to federal prison for violating his
federal probation again.
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Florida fisher serves jail time, appeals conviction
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Yates served 30 days following a federal jury trial, judgment and
sentencing on charges that he destroyed fish in an effort to obstruct an
investigation into what the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration
claimed were under-sized red grouper on Yates’ boat.
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Ex-NOAA fishing enforcer yanked from new post
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NEW BEDFORD — A NOAA spokesman, in an email, told The Standard-Times that former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration law enforcement chief Dale Jones on Friday was stripped of an important new assignment by NOAA Director Jane Lubchenco.
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