Commerce shields key report on policing
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Contending that the report by a special master on miscarriages of federal fisheries law enforcement is an internal document, the U.S. Commerce Department Monday rejected a series of requests for the work filed under the Freedom of Information Act.
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Small Alaska charters sue big government over halibut
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Largely abandoned by state tourism and small-business interests, a group of skippers who run small halibut charter boats in Alaska went into a federal court in Washington, D.C., Monday to try to stop the U.S. government from running them out of business.
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Wampanoag embroiled in a battle over fishing
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This week, having previously pressed criminal charges against the warden, David Greene, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, filed a lawsuit in Plymouth Superior Court, arguing that Kenneth Pacheco, the former deputy shellfish warden of Mattapoisett, and the town violated his right to fish “without interference, obstruction, or regulation by any governmental authority other than the sovereign Wampanoag Tribe.’’
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US govt. misses legal deadline to protect loggerhead sea turtles
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Washington - The US government has failed to issue a final ruling that would grant additional protections for the loggerhead sea turtle, a ruling required by a court-ordered settlement between conservation groups and the government over prior delays.
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NEW JERSEY: Judge hears catch quota arguments
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POINT PLEASANT BEACH, NJ - Some mid-Atlantic fishermen challenging a controversial system of catch quotas say that two-thirds of the fishing industry must vote in its favor before it can be imposed. Their contention was raised during arguments in a federal court hearing in Boston. The New England case has been at the center of a legal and political battle over the catch quota system involving cod, haddock and flounder.
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