Federal Appeals Court Urged to Reel in Fishing Monitor Rules
A conservative legal group is asking a federal appeals court to overturn a ruling allowing the government to charge New England commercial fishermen for the cost of boat monitors.
In a legal brief filed with the First Circuit Court of Appeals, the New Civil Liberties Alliance asks the three-judge panel to prevent the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from enforcing an "unlawful" regulation requiring Atlantic herring fisherman to pay for the cost of federal monitors to observe their catch...
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