Imagine you’re out selling coffee and muffins every day and out of the blue you get a letter in the mail saying last September you sold a blueberry muffin without an authorization letter and will be fined $50,000.
Far-fetched and extreme maybe, but Caroline Geishecker, who owns Chatham Coffee Company, said as a businesswoman she was appalled at some of the “ridiculous” stories local fishermen were telling her about the enforcement actions of the National Marine Fisheries Service.
“It’s a really, really bad scene,” she said.