July 25, 2017 — A New England fishermen’s group is taking its fight over the cost of at-sea monitors to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The monitors are workers who collect data that help inform government fishing regulations. The government shifted the cost of paying for monitors to fishermen last year.
A group of fisherman led by David Goethel of New Hampshire sued the government over the change and lost in a federal district court and later in 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston.
An attorney for Goethel says he filed a petition with the Supreme Court earlier this month seeking a review of the case.