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    State nears decision on whether to join cities' fishing suit
    The director of the state's Division of Marine Fisheries said Thursday the administration might decide in as little as a week whether to join New Bedford's federal lawsuit over tough new fishing regulations.
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    NOAA received IG Report on Dale Jones shredding but won't release it citing privacy
    In response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the Times, NOAA refused to explicitly clarify the status of Dale J. Jones, the longtime oceans police chief who became the galvanizing figure in the scandal as it broke in phases in January, then again in March before two House oversight subcommittees.
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    Catch share challenge assigned to judge, may be fast-tracked
    The New England fishing industry's struggle with Obama administration fisheries policy shifted focus Wednesday from the political to the legal arena.
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    RHODE ISLAND: Cities, fishermen sue feds over fishing
    Representatives of some of the nation’s largest fishing ports, fishermen and businesses – including plaintiffs from Rhode Island – have filed suit in a Massachusetts United States District Court against the U.S. Secretary of Commerce and the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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    Feds withhold nearly 3,000 pages from New Bedford Mayor's FOIA request
    Four and a half months after filing a Freedom of Information Act request for all communications that led to the controversial and later reversed decision to sharply reduce scallop allocations, New Bedford Mayor Scott Lang was informed that Federal administrators would not fully comply with the request.
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