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before 1995 middleboro's herring regs were written back in puritan times...all middleboro and lakeville residents were allowed 1 bushel of herring per season...technically the run was only open only to middleboro and lakeville residents but i remember watching commercial lobster guys back their pickup trucks down to the edge of the ladder and fill barrels with fish...thousands at a time... fortuneatly, some concerned people got organized and drafted new regulations and started to actively monitor the runs and prosecute offenders and today you have the most productive run in the state...
if they hadn't put the time and effort in they'd probably be in the same boat as a lot of other runs now...
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