June 10, 2015 — PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – A fishing oversight committee plans to ask federal regulators to call for emergency action to suspend the at-sea monitoring program required of the New England groundfishing industry.
Groundfishermen fish for important food species such as cod and haddock. The National Marine Fisheries Service has said groundfishermen will likely have to start paying the cost of at-sea monitors around August.
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