The "Gloucester rally," as chief organizer Amanda Odlin terms the casually organized mass meeting tomorrow morning to vent grievances against the U.S. system of regulating fisheries, is expected to draw hundreds of working fishermen, but possibly not a single politician.
The police-authorized demonstration, scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. in the parking lot of the National Marine Fisheries Service at 55 Great Republic Drive in Blackburn Industrial Park, could last most of the morning.
Fishermen from as far away as central Maine and Maryland are headed this way, organizers say.
In addition to crowd control and security, Gloucester police are providing a platform for the 13 scheduled speakers, including 11 fishermen, a lawyer and researcher, but do not expect trouble, Lt. Joe Aiello said.