U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal of NH fisherman burdened by $700/day federal agent aboard

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HAMPTON — A commercial fisherman who sued the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration over its $700 per day at-sea monitoring program will not have his petition heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.

David Goethel, of Hampton, filed his original suit against the federal government in 2015. He was joined by Northeast Fisheries Section 13, which represents fishermen from Massachusetts to North Carolina.

Cause of Action Institute, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit oversight group advocating for economic freedom and individual opportunity, funded the lawsuit. They announced Monday’s Supreme Court decision in a press release, and vowed that the fight is not over.

“The Department of Commerce has gone beyond the bounds of the law in putting this financial burden of more than $700 per day on small-scale fishing businesses in the Northeast. Because the New England Fishery Management Council has announced its intention to extend this unlawful requirement to other fishermen, we will continue to look for ways to challenge that and to require the Department of Commerce to follow the law,” CoA Institute Vice President Julie Smith said....

http://www.unionleader.com/courts/us-supreme-court-refuses-to-hear-appeal-of-nh-fisherman-burdened-by-700day-federal-agent-aboard-20171002&source=RSS

Wow.