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Judge eyes NOAA fight on messages |
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been ordered to
produce for judicial review hundreds of internal documents the
counsel's office has resisted turning over to the Gloucester Seafood
Display Auction as it prepares for a March 2 trial date.
The case helped trigger a federal Inspector General's national investigation into policing and prosecutorial misconduct on the part of NOAA enforcement. Among the approximately 350 documents held back on various theories of "privilege" by NOAA regional counsel are a series that seemingly track an operations plan ("ops plan") over the months leading up to a raid by armed NOAA enforcement agents of the auction in December 2006 for reporting failures of fish deliveries. |
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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.
