As an Independent Contractor, you have the right to accept or reject work orders.  Unless you signed a contract that has the boundaries in writing. The NMFS Contractor Agreement states:

With that being said, perhaps you just signed the contract without reading it? 

There is a general rule of thumb with contractors that has both sides to it.

Suppose you are a homeowner and have a two-story house with two toilets upstairs and two downstairs.  All four toilets need to be serviced.  You hire a plumber, and when he gets there, he tells you that he can only do the downstairs, not the upstairs.  But you need all four toilets serviced.  What do you do?

As a contractor, he has every right to only service the toilets downstairs.  As a homeowner, you have every right to find someone who will service your needs both downstairs and upstairs.  It works both ways.

As for NMFS, if a contractor does not want to service areas within the county they reside in, we will have no choice but to find a contractor who will.

Make sense?