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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 11 > Stimulus money used to retrieve old crab pots

Stimulus money used to retrieve old crab pots

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
July 11, 2009

NEWPORT — Commercial fishermen struggling from catch restrictions and high fuel prices are getting $700,000 in federal stimulus money to retrieve lost crab pots now littering the ocean bottom, the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday.

The money will....

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