WATHEN, Justice.
Defendants join in an appeal from judgments of conviction in the Superior Court (York County, Lipez, J. & Fritzsche, J.), entered upon their conditional guilty pleas, for possessing lobsters on a boat rigged for otter trawling in violation of 12 M.R.S.A. § 6952 (Supp.1991). Defendants maintain that the State's enforcement of this statute beyond Maine's three-mile maritime boundary is preempted by federal law, and in addition violates...
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