diff --git a/src/test/org/apache/nutch/fetcher/TestFetcher.java b/src/test/org/apache/nutch/fetcher/TestFetcher.java
index ad98a4251..19e4104b2 100644
--- a/src/test/org/apache/nutch/fetcher/TestFetcher.java
+++ b/src/test/org/apache/nutch/fetcher/TestFetcher.java
@@ -121,7 +121,6 @@ public void testFetch() throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException, InterruptedE
     // verify content
     Path content = new Path(new Path(generatedSegment[0], Content.DIR_NAME),
         "part-r-00000/data");
-    @SuppressWarnings("resource")
     SequenceFile.Reader reader = new SequenceFile.Reader(conf, SequenceFile.Reader.file(content));
 
     ArrayList<String> handledurls = new ArrayList<String>();
@@ -171,6 +170,8 @@ public void testFetch() throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException, InterruptedE
       }
     } while (true);
 
+    reader.close();
+
     Collections.sort(handledurls);
 
     Assert.assertEquals(urls.size(), handledurls.size());