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Article: Herring fishermen join trawler lawsuit
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
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- July 22, 2009
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ROCKLAND - Some New England herring fishermen added their names
last week to a federal lawsuit that argues that trawlers should not
be allowed to drag their nets through groundfish spawning areas,
which are closed to other types of fishing.
"To let these guys fish in a closed area is really inexcusable,"
said Glenn Robbins of Eliot, who owns a purse seine vessel based out
of Rockland. "They're destroying the groundfish industry. The stock
will never rebuild, as long as you're letting people in there with
trawlers."
But the midwater trawl fishermen targeted by the lawsuit feel
that their fleet does not negatively affect federally protected
groundfish stocks and that the suit is essentially a ...