A lobsterman in Maine has been charged with shooting a fellow lobsterman in what police say was a fishing turf dispute.Sixty-eight-year-old Vance Bunker was being held Tuesday on an elevated aggravated assault charge. He's accused of shooting Chris Young in the neck Monday on a Matinicus Island pier.
Maine State Police spokesman Steve McCausland says an argument over fishing territory escalated to the point where a marine patrol officer was called to the island, 20 miles off Rockland. He says the shooting happened in the officer's presence.
Young was flown to the mainland and taken to a hospital. He's in stable condition.
These are tough times for lobstermen. Prices are so low that some are talking about tying up their boats while waiting for prices to rebound.
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