Last Catch Crisis

Your family's F/V Northern Star sits impounded at Port Authority dock B7, holds full of rapidly deteriorating yellowfin tuna. With $180,000 in bank loans due next week and your catch locked in bureaucratic limbo, time is running out. Harbor Master Chen claims you exceeded your quarterly quota by 40% and demands immediate resolution.

Challenges

Survivors

Popularity

Difficulty

B1-B2

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Scenario Overview

Your Role

Second-generation fishing boat captain

Conversation Partner

Harbor Master James Chen

Setting

Port Authority office overlooking the docks, harsh fluorescent lighting casting shadows across stacks of regulatory documents

Location

New Bedford Commercial Fishing Port, Massachusetts

Learning Objectives

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Negotiate reduction of alleged overage through documentation or technical argument

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Secure temporary release of catch before spoilage

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Either arrange fine payment terms or successfully appeal violation

About This Scenario

How It Starts

“Captain, your vessel's log shows 138,000 pounds of yellowfin when your quarterly allocation is 98,500. That's a serious violation. Either pay the fine now, or I'm calling NOAA Enforcement. Your choice.”

This is how Harbor Master James Chen's greeting will start.

Practice Details

Scenario ID

#82

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