BANGOR, ME (February 26, 2009) – A group of Maine fishermen is suing the federal government in an effort to ban herring trawlers from groundfish spawning areas.
The fishermen decided Wednesday to pursue the lawsuit against the United States Department of Commerce, according to an attorney from Earthjustice, a national environmental group that represents the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance of Saco and the Midcoast Fishermen’s Association of Port Clyde.
“The guys in our organization feel that if we can’t go out there and drag, these other guys shouldn’t be able to go there and drag,” Glen Libby, chairman of the MFA, said Thursday.
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