“It creates quite a bit of apprehension as to how vulnerable we are,” said Timothy Barrett, owner of the 40-foot dragger Odessa, one of the 12 boats vandalized.

“Commercial fishing first class rape,” and “sea life kidnapped, murdered, maliciously” were among the messages found sprayed across the topsides of fishing boats Monday morning after a late-night attack at Jesse’s Marine in North Plymouth.

Signed below the messages on many of the boats were the letters “E.L.F.” — acronym of the radical Earth Liberation Front, an underground group the FBI calls “domestic terrorists” for alleged guerilla attacks.

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