SOUTH PORTLAND – The Coast Guard and Seabrook, N.H., police on Tuesday morning questioned three hunters who had been seen in a boat by security guards near the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant.

Two Coast Guard boats and police responded after the guards saw the boat near the 250-yard security zone around the power plant. The guards held the men at the plant until police arrived, according to a press release from the Coast Guard.

The men said they were hunting for ducks in a marsh near the plant.