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Lawyer requests former co-op manager serve 45 days for lobster scheme

April 12, 2015 New England

The recommendation for a sentence for 53-year-old Robert Thompson of St. George was filed Friday by attorney Walter McKee. The U.S. attorney’s office has until Tuesday to file its recommended sentence. Federal sentencing guidelines call for a prison term of 41 to 51 months. Thompson could also be fined up to $250,000. Read the rest here 11:53

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Feds offer more details on illegal lobster sales – possible investigation into tax evasion by lobstermen

December 15, 2014 New England

The former manager of one of the state’s largest lobster cooperatives had a clandestine arrangement with certain members of that organization to buy lobsters from them in cash and evade income taxes, according to papers filed by the federal government in court. Read the rest here 00:01

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Feds agree to return $71,500 stolen from fishermen’s cooperative in South Thomaston

August 28, 2014 National

One of the largest fishermen’s cooperative in the state will get back $71,500 seized by police during an investigation into the theft of more than $1 million in lobsters. The money was seized in October 2012 as part of a criminal investigation into Thompson, J.P. Shellfish of Eliot, and its owner John Price, 58, of Kittery. Read more here 17:50

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Lobster cooperative asks court to order feds to hand over $70,000 in confiscated funds

July 10, 2014 New England

The Spruce Head Fishermen’s Cooperative has asked a federal court to order the U.S. government to return $70,000 it seized from a former manager who has been accused of stealing from the organization. Read more here 23:11

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Judge agrees to $1 million lien against seafood dealer, co-op manager for alleged lobster theft

August 28, 2013 New England

A judge agreed last week to slap a lien for more than $1 million attachment on properties of a southern Maine seafood dealer as well as the former manager of the Spruce Head Fishermen’s Cooperative over allegations by the midcoast cooperative that those parties conspired to steal and sell huge quantities of lobster. more@bdn 20:52

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State drops theft charge in Spruce Head lobster co-op case – former manager may have stolen as much as $180,000 from the lobstermen.

May 26, 2013 New England

ROCKLAND, Maine — The district attorney’s office has dismissed a felony theft charge against the former manager of one of the state’s largest lobster cooperatives but the dismissal does not end the man’s legal problems. continued

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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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