A New England fishermen’s group is taking its fight over monitors who collect sea data to the U.S. Supreme Court, hoping it removes a new cost they say is an existential threat to the industry.
The monitors are workers who collect data used to help develop government fishing regulations, and the government shifted the cost of paying for monitors to fishermen last year. A group of fisherman, led by David Goethel of New Hampshire, then sued the government over the change and lost in a federal district court and later in the federal appeals court in Boston.
Goethel isn’t giving up, and his attorney filed a petition with the Supreme Court earlier this month seeking a review of the case. Monitors can cost hundreds of dollars per day and are likely to put fishermen out of business, Goethel said.
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