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Article: NOAA CHARGES CHARTER OPERATORS WITH ILLEGAL FISHING FOR STRIPED BASS

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The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration issued the following press release:

A joint undercover operation by NOAA's Fisheries Service Office of Law Enforcement and New York and New Jersey enforcement agents has uncovered evidence of alleged illegal fishing by two charter operators.

The operators, Steven N. Forsberg and Viking Starship Inc. of Montauk, N.Y., and Jerome E. Hurd of Avalon, N.J., have been charged by NOAA with taking their patrons to catch striped bass in federal waters, where capture of the prized sport fish is prohibited.

During the undercover operations, federal agents and state officers posed as patrons on several charter vessels ...

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