PORTLAND — Attorneys for the nation’s largest seafood company did their best to convince a federal judge on Wednesday that the antitrust lawsuit filed against Clackamas fish buyer Frank Dulcich’s Pacific Seafood Group doesn’t merit class action status.
U.S. District Judge Owen Panner heard arguments in a lawsuit filed last year by Portland attorneys Mike Haglund and Mike Kelley, who say they represent potentially hundreds of fishermen damaged by the alleged anti-competitive practices of Pacific Seafood Group and one of its partners, Ocean Gold of Westport, Wash. Dulcich buys whiting from Ocean Gold.
The plaintiffs, currently Brookings fishermen Lloyd and Todd Whaley, claim that the two companies, led by Dulcich, hurt fishermen by fixing prices at an unfairly low level in several fisheries.
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