From far-flung ports north and south of here, a broad-based movement of aggrieved fishermen is on its way to Gloucester, where protesters planned to meet at 8:30 a.m. today outside the new federal fisheries office building to register objections to the impact on their ways of life of a new wave of policies.
The demonstration, authorized by the Gloucester Police in consultation with Homeland Security, Immigration, Customs and Federal Protective Services, includes a speakers’ list of about a dozen, mostly fishermen.
The Blackburn Industrial Park offices from which the 200 bureaucrats, lawyers and law enforcement investigators of the National Marine Fisheries Service regulate fishing Maine through the Carolinas will be open or business, officials have said.
Late yesterday, Amanda Odlin, lead organizer of the meeting, took her children, Lydia, 10, and Maya, 12, to karate and put the finishing touches on a press package that features a letter of solidarity from Elinor Ostrom.