ROETTGER, District Judge.
Plaintiff has been a commercial fisherman for 20 years and started fishing on Lake Okeechobee about 1970. With the lake lighted by a full moon on November 26, 1977, plaintiff struck an unlighted, unmarked and unauthorized piling while returning with his sons from laying out a two-mile set of trot lines. Plaintiff's 18 foot Skipjack plywood boat with a 55 h.p. motor was making 30 knots and riding on the plane when it hit the piling. Plaintiff...
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