August 21, 2017 — PORTLAND, Maine — The federal government has waived its right to respond to a fishermen’s group’s petition to the U.S. Supreme Court about a court battle over the cost of fishing monitors.
The monitors are workers who collect data used to help develop government fishing regulations, and the government shifted the cost of paying for monitors to fishermen last year. A group of fisherman, led by David Goethel of New Hampshire, then sued the government over the change and lost in a federal district court and later in the federal appeals court in Boston.
Goethel filed a petition with the Supreme Court seeking a review of the case last month.
Read the full story from the Associated Press at the New Bedford Standard-Times