Auction settles case with NOAA; admits no liability
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"The problem it became was a business decision," Ciulla said. "It was not prudent to spend that much money on litigation."
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Official statement from GSDA regarding settlement with NOAA
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NOAA and Gloucester Fish Exchange, Inc. (owner of the Gloucester Seafood Display Auction) agreed late yesterday to settle three pending enforcement cases. From the outset, the Gloucester Fish Auction has vigorously denied all of the claims asserted by the National Marine Fisheries Service which had sought to impose fines totaling almost $400,000 and shut down the Auction for one hundred fifty (150) days based on incidents that occurred between 2004 and 2006. This sanction, if imposed, would not only have been detrimental to the Auction, but to the Gloucester fishing industry and the entire fishing community, which the Agency purports to serve. The Auction has been scrupulous about establishing and maintaining procedures to ensure compliance with the law.
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NOAA and Gloucester Seafood Display Auction Settle Three Cases
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NOAA and Gloucester Fish Exchange, Inc. (owner of the Gloucester Seafood Display Auction) agreed late yesterday to settle three pending enforcement cases that involved allegations of handling illegally caught fish and maintaining false records.
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OPINION: The unconstitutionality of federal fishing law
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Under the guise of helping in the management of common resources, an
agency of the federal government, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration and its National Marine Fisheries Service, is
transforming the open ocean into an enclosed field — a field one can
enter only upon paying a considerable access fee.
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National Marine Fisheries Service in legal battle
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Local fishermen have sued the National Marine Fisheries Service over
deficiencies in the agency's method of monitoring the industrial
Atlantic herring midwater trawlers.
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