Federal Appeals Court upholds ruling for shrimp trawlers in Clean Water Act dispute
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court decision favoring shrimp trawlers in a dispute tied to the Clean Water Act. A three-judge appellate panel agreed unanimously with the dismissal of legal complaints against the trawlers. “Fisheries Reform Group alleges that shrimp trawlers operating in North Carolina’s Pamlico Sound are violating the Clean Water Act by engaging in two types of unpermitted activity: throwing bycatch overboard and disturbing sediment with their trawl nets. But these activities do not violate the Clean Water Act,” wrote Appeals Court Judge Julius Richardson. The seven named defendants in the case are commercial shrimpers in Pamlico Sound. They harvest shrimp by dragging trawl nets along the ocean’s floor. >click to read< 07:58
These people want control over fishing it’s a lie that fish population is declining I have commercial fished since I was a kid with my father and a commercial fisherman and I am 72 now and fishing has not declined we are the only state on the east coast that can’t fish for flounder and speckled trout and drum all other states can fish for flounder and speckled trout and drum when they want to if you protect the stripped rock fishing and drum fishing and damn sea turtles they are going to feed on all small fish don’t matter what breed they are and then you have to have enough sense to catch a fish Joe albea