Charlie Baker, the Republican Party's presumptive nominee for governor, recently waded into the debate over lobster fishing regulations, opposing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's new rules for the industry while criticizing Attorney General Martha Coakley for refusing to weigh in on the topic.

In the statement, Baker's campaign targeted Coakley, the leading Democrat in the polls, for declining to comment on the NOAA plan. The statement included a link to a Patriot Ledger story in which a spokeswoman for the attorney general said Coakley's office was aware of the concerns of the fishermen but was not commenting on the plan.

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