Hundreds of fishermen from the Northeast rallied in front of the headquarters of federal fishery managers Friday, demanding changes in the "dysfunctional" management that they say is destroying their industry.
Some fishermen held signs reading "Let Fishermen Fish"; other signs pictured Adolf Hitler with the word "Nazi" replacing the first word in National Marine Fisheries Service.
One group marched toward the New England regional headquarters entrance chanting, "Down with NMFS! Down with NMFS!" while a man roamed the crowd dressed as the grim reaper, with NMFS printed on his scythe.
Speakers addressed the crowd in front of a display of two fishermen at the gallows being hanged by a figure of Jane Lubchenco, chief of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has charge over the fisheries service.