Lawmakers in southern New Jersey want to give fishing operations the same legal protections as farms.
The Garden State has had a right-to-farm law on the books since 1983, giving farmers the presumptive right to go about their noisy and sometimes smelly work routinely without interference from neighbors.
A measure that passed the state Assembly last month would give similar protections to fishing ports, commercial docks and fish-processing plants.
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