March 18, 2012 – Fishermen from California to New England plan to rally for their struggling industry in Washington this week with an election year message for Congress: helping the fishing industry will save jobs.
Organizers expect a roster of lawmakers to speak before about 5,000 commercial and recreational fishermen in a park next to the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
The crowd is expected to include fishermen from all the Atlantic coast states plus Alaska and California.
From New Jersey, Save the Summer Flounder Fishery Fund, an advocacy group for the commercial and recreational fishing industry, is to send four buses with an expected 200-plus people to the rally, said Tony Bogan, whose family owns Bogan’s Basin in Brielle and is a rally organizer.
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