Well-known fisherman threatened with arrest “Communism? You’re in it as far as I know.”

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Interview with C.J. (Mississippi fisherman, Coastal Heritage Society of Louisiana Radio with Kindra Arnesen, September 21, 2010:

Transcript Summary

James ‘Catfish’ Miller at DMR meeting in Biloxi, MS… They wanted to arrest him for asking a question… for speaking out of turn… He’s got some issues from some old misdemeanor… Since he found this stuff in the water and he’s been speaking out… Gonna bring him to jail, make an example of him… Top people in the seafood business said “They want you, They’re gonna make an example out of you.”… Communism? You in it as far as I know… They wanted to arrest him!… He was a little shook up… Jail time, fines, take shrimping license for a year.

Listen to full interview here. Coastal Heritage Society of Louisiana here.

Video Credits: WLOX, Project Gulf Impact

James ‘Catfish’ Miller and colleagues finding that “stuff in the water”: