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The Yankee Fishermen's Coop in Seabrook, New Hampshire, is one of the few places to access local seafood from local fishermen. A combination of clumsy regulatory practices, over fishing by large commercial enterprises and a market monopoly from large fishing corporations have economically knee-capped New England's fishermen and forced a mass abandonment of the industry. The recent arrest of Carlos Rafael, a Portuguese-born fishing mogul with a fleet of over 40 boats operating out of New Bedford, Mass., has highlighted corruption, environmental abuse and regulatory shortcomings that allow a few large operations like Carlos Seafood to monopolize, through legal mandate, the fishing industry.