More than 3,000 come to Washington to protest fishing limits
Photo credit: Newsday/Mark Harrington | Shinnecock fisherman Billy Reed wears a sign listing all the dock's fisherman who have sold their boats in the past several years. He's at a rally in Washington of fishermen seeking to ease provisions of the Magnuson Stevens Act. (Feb. 24, 2010)
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WASHINGTON - They came from ports as far away as Montauk and Kodiak, Alaska, Panama City, Fla., and New Bedford, Mass., wearing baseball caps and blue jeans and fish-embroidered windbreakers. With shouts and hand-lettered signs, they issued a single demand: Fix crippling fishing laws now.
More than 3,000 men, women and children came to Washington Wednesday, cheering lawmakers who vowed to...
