The National Marine Fisheries Service has issued exempted fishing permits to three commercial swordfish longliners for "research" purposes off Florida's East Coast and the Charleston Bump. Despite heated objections, the NMFS has reopened these areas that were closed in 2000 after a lawsuit filed by conservation groups.

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