Amid probe, DEC halts sale of seized fish
Photo credit: Leslie Barbaro | Fresh fish purchased daily at market. (June 14, 2012)
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The Department of Environmental Conservation has suspended the practice of selling the seafood it seizes from fishermen in enforcement actions as an internal review of its practices continues.
The move, which follows a report in Newsday last month that the agency was reviewing its practices related to confiscations, comes as a lawyer for East End fishermen on Thursday filed an ethics complaint...
