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Supreme Court to Decide Whether to Hear Maine Lobstermen's Challenge to GPS Boat-Tracking Mandate

Supreme Court to Decide Whether to Hear Maine Lobstermen's Challenge to GPS Boat-Tracking Mandate

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September 14th, 2026

Supreme Court to Decide Whether to Hear Maine Lobstermen's Challenge to GPS Boat-Tracking Mandate

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The Supreme Court is expected to decide by the end of this month whether to hear a challenge brought by lobster fishermen against a government requirement mandating the use of electronic tracking devices aboard their vessels, and the case carries the potential to precipitate far-reaching repercussions across the American commercial fishing industry as a whole.

๋Œ€๋ฒ•์›์€ ๊ธˆ์›” ๋ง ๋ž์Šคํ„ฐ ์–ด๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋ณดํŠธ ๋‚ด ์ „์ž ์ถ”์  ์žฅ์น˜ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์„ ์˜๋ฌดํ™”ํ•œ ์ •๋ถ€ ์š”๊ตฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ œ๊ธฐํ•œ ์ด์˜๋ฅผ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌํ• ์ง€ ์—ฌ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ณธ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ƒ์—… ์–ด์—… ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ํŒŒ๊ธ‰ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•  ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์„ ์ง€๋‹ˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Frank Thompson, a Maine lobster fisherman, filed a federal lawsuit against the commissioner of the state's Department of Marine Resources, contesting a requirement that compels him to install a GPS tracking device on his boat as a precondition for retaining his fishing license.

๋ฉ”์ธ์ฃผ ๋ž์Šคํ„ฐ ์–ด๋ถ€์ธ ํ”„๋žญํฌ ํ†ฐ์Šจ์€ ์–ด์—… ๋ฉดํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ „์ œ ์กฐ๊ฑด์œผ๋กœ ๋ณดํŠธ์— GPS ์ถ”์  ์žฅ์น˜๋ฅผ ์„ค์น˜ํ•˜๋„๋ก ๊ฐ•์ œํ•˜๋Š” ์š”๊ตฌ์— ์ด์˜๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ธฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ฃผ ํ•ด์–‘์ž์›๋ถ€ ์žฅ๊ด€์„ ์ƒ๋Œ€๋กœ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ์†Œ์†ก์„ ์ œ๊ธฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

In this state, where the lobster fishery constitutes a significant and historic industry, authorities have required all federally licensed lobster fishermen to implement corresponding measures in order to comply with new U.S. regulations enacted with the aim of collecting data in 2023.

๋ž์Šคํ„ฐ ์–ด์—…์ด ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ ์ธ ์‚ฐ์—…์œผ๋กœ ์ž๋ฆฌํ•œ ์ด ์ฃผ๋Š”, 2023๋…„ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ˆ˜์ง‘์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ์ œ์ •๋œ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ทœ์ •์„ ์ค€์ˆ˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์ทจ๋“ํ•œ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ž์Šคํ„ฐ ์–ด๋ถ€๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ์— ์ƒ์‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ดํ–‰ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Thompson contended that the monitoring in question constituted an unreasonable search and seizure, but the federal appellate court rejected that argument of his last year.

ํ†ฐ์Šจ์€ ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋ง์ด ๋ถ€๋‹นํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ƒ‰ ๋ฐ ์••์ˆ˜์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋‚˜, ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ํ•ญ์†Œ๋ฒ•์›์€ ์ง€๋‚œํ•ด ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ฃผ์žฅ์„ ๊ธฐ๊ฐํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

He appealed to the Supreme Court, which is scheduled to hear the argument on September 28.

๊ทธ๋Š” ๋Œ€๋ฒ•์›์— ์ƒ๊ณ ํ•˜์˜€๊ณ , ๋Œ€๋ฒ•์›์€ 9์›” 28์ผ ์ด ์ฃผ์žฅ์„ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋‹ค.

Thompson's lead attorney, Matt Gilliam, stated, "This petition asks whether Maine can mandate the installation of government GPS tracking devices on private boats even when lobster fishermen are not working," and added, "We hope the Court will grant certiorari and address this significant Fourth Amendment issue."

ํ†ฐ์Šจ์˜ ์ˆ˜์„ ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์ธ ๋งคํŠธ ๊ธธ๋ฆฌ์—„์€ "์ด ์ฒญ์›์€ ๋ฉ”์ธ์ฃผ๊ฐ€ ๋ž์Šคํ„ฐ ์–ด๋ถ€๋“ค์ด ์ผ์„ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๋•Œ์—๋„ ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ณดํŠธ์— ์ •๋ถ€ GPS ์ถ”์  ์žฅ์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•์ œ๋กœ ํƒ‘์žฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ฌป๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค"๋ฉฐ "๋ฒ•์›์ด ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ •ํ—Œ๋ฒ• ์ œ4์กฐ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํฌ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

A great many American commercial fishermen are subject to monitoring at sea, which deploys human observers and electronic devices to collect data that regulatory authorities contend is indispensable to preserving the sustainability and health of both the industry and fish populations.

์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ƒ์—… ์–ด๋ถ€๋“ค์€ ๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ์ด ์—…๊ณ„์™€ ์–ด๋ฅ˜ ๊ฐœ์ฒด๊ตฐ์˜ ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ ๋ฐ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ์œ ์ง€์— ํ•„์ˆ˜๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๊ฒฐํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด, ํ•ด์ƒ์—์„œ ์ธ๊ฐ„ ๊ด€์ฐฐ์ž์™€ ์ „์ž ์žฅ์น˜๋ฅผ ๋™์›ํ•œ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋ง์˜ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ด ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

For years, fishing organizations have sought through the courts to scale back monitoring requirements, but the outcomes have been mixed.

์–ด์—… ๋‹จ์ฒด๋“ค์€ ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋ฒ•์›์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋ง ์š”๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ถ•์†Œํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ์‹œ๋„ํ•ด ์™”์œผ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” ์—‡๊ฐˆ๋ ธ๋‹ค.

Authorities have stated that the lobster boat monitoring program is crucial to deepening understanding of a valuable crustacean population at a time when its numbers appear to be declining in New England.

๋‹น๊ตญ์€ ๋ž์Šคํ„ฐ ๋ณดํŠธ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋ง ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์ด ๋‰ด์ž‰๊ธ€๋žœ๋“œ์—์„œ ๊ฐœ์ฒด์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์‹œ๊ธฐ์— ๊ท€์ค‘ํ•œ ๊ฐ‘๊ฐ๋ฅ˜ ๊ฐœ์ฒด๊ตฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ดํ•ด๋ฅผ ์‹ฌํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

A spokesperson for the Maine Department of Marine Resources declined to comment on Monday.

๋ฉ”์ธ์ฃผ ํ•ด์–‘์ž์›๋ถ€ ๋Œ€๋ณ€์ธ์€ ์›”์š”์ผ ๋…ผํ‰์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Commissioner Carl Wilson asserted last year that the lobster boat data were pivotal in "mitigating economic harm to the industry" and in informing regulations.

์นผ ์œŒ์Šจ ๋ถ€์„œ์žฅ์€ ์ง€๋‚œํ•ด ๋ž์Šคํ„ฐ ๋ณดํŠธ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ "์—…๊ณ„์˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ํ”ผํ•ด๋ฅผ ์™„ํ™”"ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ทœ์ •์— ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ฒฐ์ •์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์–ธ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Conservation organizations have opposed attempts to scale back monitoring of offshore fishing vessels, regarding this as a critical issue for broader marine conservation.

๋ณด์กด ๋‹จ์ฒด๋“ค์€ ํ•ด์ƒ ์–ด์„  ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋ง์„ ์ถ•์†Œํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๋„์— ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•ด ์™”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ํ•ด์–‘ ๋ณดํ˜ธ์— ์žˆ์–ด ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ„์ฃผํ•œ๋‹ค.

Erica Fuller, a senior attorney at the Conservation Law Foundation, remarked, "Efforts to overturn the federal appeals court ruling do not alter the fact that New England's lobster population has declined and that fishery managers urgently require reliable, detailed data to address the complex challenges confronting our oceans."

๋ณด์กด๋ฒ•์žฌ๋‹จ์˜ ์—๋ฆฌ์นด ํ’€๋Ÿฌ ์„ ์ž„ ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ๋Š” "์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ํ•ญ์†Œ๋ฒ•์› ํŒ๊ฒฐ์„ ๋’ค์ง‘์œผ๋ ค๋Š” ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์€ ๋‰ด์ž‰๊ธ€๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ๋ž์Šคํ„ฐ ๊ฐœ์ฒด์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ๊ณ  ์–ด์—… ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์ž๋“ค์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํ•ด์–‘์ด ์ง๋ฉดํ•œ ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ์— ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ  ์ƒ์„ธํ•œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์‹œ๊ธ‰ํžˆ ํ•„์š”๋กœ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๋ฐ”๊พธ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The backbone of the American lobster industry is largely situated in Maine, where fishermen landed more than 78 million pounds (35.4 million kilograms) of the crustacean last year.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ž์Šคํ„ฐ ์‚ฐ์—…์˜ ๊ทผ๊ฐ„์€ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ๋ฉ”์ธ์ฃผ์— ์ž๋ฆฌ ์žก๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์–ด๋ถ€๋“ค์€ ์ง€๋‚œํ•ด 7,800๋งŒ ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ(3,540๋งŒ ํ‚ฌ๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ)๊ฐ€ ๋„˜๋Š” ๊ฐ‘๊ฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์–ดํšํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

That figure is comparable to typical annual catches of the 2000s, yet it represents a marked decline from a decade ago, when annual landings routinely surpassed 120 million pounds (54.4 million kilograms).

์ด๋Š” 2000๋…„๋Œ€์˜ ํ†ต์ƒ์ ์ธ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์–ดํš๋Ÿ‰๊ณผ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด๋‚˜, ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์–ดํš๋Ÿ‰์ด ์ƒ์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ 1์–ต 2,000๋งŒ ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ(5,440๋งŒ ํ‚ฌ๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ)๋ฅผ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜์˜€๋˜ 10๋…„ ์ „๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ•˜๋ฉด ํ˜„์ €ํžˆ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

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