Chiefs granted intervenor status in border-crossing lobster case

Chiefs granted intervenor status in border-crossing lobster case

By Andrews Bates, Local Journalism Initiative, Telegraph-Journal An Indigenous nation has been granted intervenor status in a case involving a U.S.-based lobster fisher accused of illegally fishing in Passamaquoddy Bay. Erik D. Francis, 55, of Perry, Maine, faces charges under the Coastal Fisheries Protection Act alleging that he illegally fished from a foreign vessel in New Brunswick […]

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