GLOUCESTER, MA (February 24, 2009) – Coast Guard Station Gloucester’s flagship, the 110-foot cutter Grand Isle, steamed from its mooring at Jodrey State Fish Pier for another routine day of enforcement activity — looking for violators of byzantine federal fishing regulations.
Sure enough, on this day, Nov. 1, 2006, violations were found — three flounder and a fillet off another flounder that were believed to be illegal.
Not five miles east of Cape Ann’s rocky shoreline, a handful of Gloucester day boats, including Bill Lee’s well-known, 43-foot Ocean Reporter, congregated to take their day’s limit of the mix of groundfish — cod, yellowtail flounder, haddock and other white-fleshed species — from the fish-rich inshore waters that are part of Gloucester’s great natural gift.
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