SILVA v. DIRECTOR OF THE DIVISION OF MARINE FISHERIES

No. 97-P-1647.

46 Mass. App. Ct. 608 (1999)

ALFRED J. SILVA v. DIRECTOR OF THE DIVISION OF MARINE FISHERIES.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Barnstable.

April 6, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. James Veara for the plaintiff.

Adam Simms, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

Present: LAURENCE, DREBEN, & LENK, JJ.


DREBEN, J.

Although acquitted of the criminal charge of possessing egg-bearing female lobsters,1 at a subsequent administrative adjudicatory proceeding of the Division of Marine Fisheries (division), Alfred Silva was found to have been in possession of eighty-three egg-bearing female lobsters. As a result, the defendant, the director of the division, suspended Silva's lobster permit for...

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