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Breaking: Eight arrested in drug raids on New Bedford fishing boats

March 16, 2016 New England

Eight people were arrested on local fishing boats over the past two days in drug raids by national, state and local law enforcement, who seized heroin and opiates that fishermen were intending to use at sea, police said. “This is the second time we’ve done this, and it’s actually a continuing effort to tie (off) the flow of illegal drugs from getting to sea, aboard fishing vessels,” said Major Patrick Moran of the Massachusetts Environmental Police. “This operation, we had eight arrests,” he said. Moran said environmental police worked with the New Bedford Police Department’s marine unit and local officers from the Department of Homeland Security in the two-day operation. Read the rest here 15:44

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Cooler after cooler, bucket after bucket, Five Massachusetts men charged with having hundreds of illegally caught fish

June 22, 2015 New England

One of the them was caught last year selling fish out of his trunk in Brockton. The men, whom police have not yet identified, are facing illegal fishing and boating violations after they were caught with hundreds of illegally fished black sea bass and scup in their boat, state environmental police said. Environmental police were conducting inspections off Buzzards Bay Saturday when they came upon the 23-foot boat with five Brockton men aboard. Read the rest here 21:20

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State boards 2 clam dredging boats off Provincetown, seizes clams, one Skipper arrested on unrelated charge

April 4, 2015 New England

On the morning of March 24, Massachusetts Environmental Police patrolling off the coast of Provincetown in the patrol boat Jessie observed two fishing vessels, the Aimee Marie and Miss Maegan, harvesting the surf clams in less than 12 feet of water, according to Peter Lorenz, communications director for the Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs. Read the rest here 10:36

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Alleged poacher facing multiple charges

May 10, 2014 New England

BARNSTABLE — A West Yarmouth man accused of poaching thousands of oysters from beds in Dennis and Barnstable last summer also faces a long list of other theft charges. Michael Bryant has several open cases in Barnstable District Court for check-forging, shoplifting and buying stolen merchandise. And on May 1, the 37-year-old was arraigned in Orleans District Court for poaching eels. Read more here 06:31

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A Wonderful Regulatory By Catch Solution! Environmental Police donate voluntarily confiscated fish to the hungry

April 29, 2014 New England

NEW BEDFORD — They were “beautiful fish.” One hundred pounds of fluke fillets — enough to make 250 meals — donated to the Veterans Transition House on Friday with a surprising but welcome knock at the door. The story of these fillets’ “unusual circumstances” began on April 22. That’s when the fluke fishery’s usual 500-pound trip limit decreased to 100 pounds. Read more here 06:47

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Patronage alleged after Massachusetts Environmental Police colonel’s pick for top cop job ignored

November 15, 2013 New England

FOX UNDERCOVER (MyFoxBoston.com) — It was Gary Duncan’s dream job, a big promotion to coastal bureau chief for the Massachusetts Environmental Police, where he’s worked for more than 30 years. But instead of celebrating what would probably have been his final job before retiring, Duncan is left trying to understand what happened. more@myfoxboston 09:04

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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