CHATHAM — A joint meeting of two committees Thursday to discuss raising docking fees for non-residents turned violent, with two men throwing expletives and fists before cooler heads prevailed.

Video: Fistfight erupts in Chatham

About half an hour into the meeting between the Chatham Waterways Advisory Committee and Aunt Lydia's Cove Committee, waterways committee member David Davis jumped out of his chair after calling cove committee Chairman Doug Feeney an expletive. The two men traded insults and more expletives, before Davis pushed another committee member out of the way and threw a punch at Feeney. Feeney then gave a swing of his own. The two men were separated and the meeting resumed for about another hour and a half.

The meeting, which was taped, was posted Friday on the town's website with a warning on the screen for violence and foul language just before the scuffle.

The committees endorsed the rise in docking fees, but nothing is set in stone yet, said Selectman Timothy Roper, who was at the meeting. The town manager and police chief were made aware of the fight and will be reviewing the incident, he said.

After the fight, the meeting was “pretty mellow and pretty productive,” Roper said.