DOVER — A group of New Hampshire commercial fishermen were bound for Gloucester, Mass., this morning to participate in a widespread protest at the regional office of the federal agency they say is threatening their livelihood.
Padi Anderson of Dover, whose family owns two fishing boats, the Rimrack and the Madrigan, said some of those fishermen include Erik Anderson, president of the New Hampshire Commercial Fishermen's Association, David Goethel of Hampton, who also serves as a member of the New England Fishery Management Council in Newburyport, Mass., her husband, Mike Anderson, of Rye, Jay Driscoll and Carolyn Eastmen.
They and hundreds of other commercial fishermen from across New England plan to protest outside the offices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Marine Fisheries Service in Gloucester at 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon one day before the fishery management council's deadline for submissions by fishermen to prove what the correct catch histories were between 1996 and 2006, the years voted for most of the fishery.
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