Fishermen Reopen Monopoly Suit Against Pacific Seafoods over Acquisition of Ocean Gold
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Oregonian] By Jeff Manning - January 23, 2015
After a two-year armistice, the legal warfare has resumed between Pacific Seafood Group and a handful of Oregon commercial fishermen who claim the large Clackamas company abuses its market power.
The fishermen sued Pacific Seafood Thursday claiming the company violated terms of the 2012 settlement of an earlier class-action anti-trust lawsuit. The fishermen are seeking a temporary restraining order to block Pacific Seafood's pending acquisition of a Westport, Wash.-based fish processing company, Ocean Gold.
Ocean Gold, which owns a single processing plant, is one of the largest processors of whiting on the Northwest...
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