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"Jeff LaFleur, executive director of the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers' Association, sent one of his staff members to Handy's bog Wednesday and said he also disputes Martinsen's numbers.
"My staff said there's no way the number of fish was that high," LaFleur said. "That would be about 14 tractor-trailer trucks worth of herring. Something is way off here."
But Martinsen stuck to his estimates and said the herring were swimming throughout the entire bog and a number of them were caught in the sluiceway prior to draining the bog.
He said natural resources officials manned the area all day Tuesday and overnight Wednesday while the bog was being drained and herring were dropping back into Wing Pond the entire time."
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