Case Details

Year Initiated/Committed

2000

Year Resolved

2000

Settlement Amount

n/a

Court

Kennebec Superior Court, Maine

Docket Number

CV-00-63

Lead State

ME

Participating States

ME

Defendant(s)

Bumble Bee Seafoods, LLC

Case Description

Challenge to merger of sardine processors resolved by Consent Decree requiring merged entity to continue to produce an annual minimum quota of finished product, purpose is to safeguard competition in the Gulf of Maine purchase market for herring. Subsequent agreed-upon amendments reduce production quota, specify penalties for violations and substitute Bumble Bee as Defendant.