Fishing legal challenge gets court airing Tuesday
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Their protests rejected or ignored by the New England Fishery Management Council, spurned by the parent federal fisheries service and stonewalled by the head of NOAA and Secretary of Commerce, a broad-based coalition of commercial fishing interests organized from Gloucester and New Bedford get to voice their grievances to a federal judge Tuesday.
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Court case against commerce secretary begins Tuesday
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NEW BEDFORD — March 14, 2011 - After 10 months of filing cross-motions and writing memoranda, attorneys in the city's lawsuit against the U.S. commerce secretary over fishing regulations will go into a Boston courtroom Tuesday.
U.S. District Court Judge Rya Zobel will hear arguments from both sides asking for summary judgment in the case, with the U.S. government asking that the case be thrown out, and the cities of New Bedford and Gloucester asking that Amendment 16 to the Magnuson-Stevens Act be compelled to comply with the requirements of the law.
That would include a proper analysis of the effects of management changes on port communities, along with a better system of allocating fish.
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Suit against Pacific Seafood takes hit with ruling
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PORTLAND, Ore.—A class-action lawsuit against one of the country's largest seafood processors has taken a hit, after a judge said the plaintiffs failed to show the company used its enormous market share to suppress prices paid to fisherman.
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Congressmen weigh in against regulators in fishing suit
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NEW BEDFORD — The New England Fishery Management Council and the National Marine Fisheries Service "lost their way" when they wrote Amendment 16 to the Magnuson-Stevens Act, U.S. reps. Barney Frank and John Tierney told a federal court judge Tuesday.
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New Bedford and Gloucester file brief opposing Cape Cod Hook argument
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The Fixed Gear Sector is one of two experimental sectors (cooperatives) formed on the Cape, the other being the now-dormant Hook Sector. The cities argue that the close relationship with NOAA policymakers gave the Cape sectors an insider's advantage. "These experimental sectors, unlike the plaintiffs, have been given a direct role in policymaking," the cities wrote in a memo to the court.
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