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Page 12/The Battalion/Thursday, October 6,1983 Shrimper says crackdown will make many sell out United Press International BROWNSVILLE —The U.S. Coast Guard’s crackdown on illegal shrimping inside Mex ico’s 200-mile limit has dried up the once-lucrative forays that Texas boats made for decades south of the border. Now shrimpers, such as 23- year veteran Carl Gayman, are predicting many from the world’s largest shrimp fleet will go broke or sell out to escape what Gayman terms intolerable intervention in the fishing in dustry. “I sold one boat, and if I find another fool, I’m going to sell another,” said Gayman, who op- ~ iff ~ ' crates Trans-Gulf Trawlers at the Brownsville Shrimp Burn ing Basin. In a crackdown ordered by the National Marine Fisheries Administration, the Coast Guard caught more than 100 boats returning to Texas from Mexico and confiscated their catches until about three weeks ago. That is when U.S. shrim pers apparently gave up trying to get around the thorough air and sea patrols. “We’re still patrolling, but it’s been slow the last two or three weeks. Right now I don’t think there are too many of them out shrimping,” said Chief Petty Officer Charles Besecker, in charge of the patrols out of the South Padre Island Coast Guard Station. First Presbyterian Church 1100 Carter Creek Parkway, Bryan 823-8073 Dr. Robert Leslie, Pastor Rev. John McGarey, Associate Pastor SUNDAY: Worship at 8:30AM & 11:00AM Church School at 9:30AM College Class at 9:30AM I Bus fromTAMU Krueger/Dunn 9:10AM Northgate 9:15AMI Youth Meeting at 5:00PM Nursery: All Events £ TEXAS AVI £ > 3 O s 5 s CARTER CREEK PKY first 4- Presbyterian * Church Last summer, a daily military flight along the coast of Mexico spotted entire fleets of U.S. shrimp boats trawling inside the 200-mile economic zone that Mexico established in 1977. A gradual phase-out of all foreign shrimping in Mexico’s waters ended Dec. 31, 1979. But until a year ago, many if not most of the approximately 500 boats operating out of Brownsville-Port Isabel con tinued to follow the migratory shrimp into their traditional fishing grounds in the fall and winter months. “Mexico is operating only 25 percent of its fleet. Shrimp live just one year and die. The re source is just being lost,” Gay man said. “But I don’t think the Mexicans will ever let the Amer icans back in. The Mexicans hate the United States. We took part of their country away. They’re taught that in school and raised up that way. A private group of Texas shrimpers and a congressional delegation traveled to Mexico in recent weeks, trying to work out some kind of arrangement whereby U.S. shrimpers could shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Mexico. But both groups received negative re sults. An amendment to the 1976 act extending U.S. fishing limits out 200 miles permits an embar go against countries that refuse to recognize traditional fishing rights. “If our politicians are think ing they can go down there and ask for something and get it, they’re crazy as hell,” he said. Gayman said Mexicans were barely enforcing their own 200- mile limit until last year when the Coast Guard got involved under the 1981 amendments to the Lacey Act, which makes it illegal to import to the United States seafood and wildlife taken in violation of another country’s laws. German official to visit Texas BOB BROWN UNIVERSAL TRAVEL COMPLETE, DEPENDABLE DOMESTIC AND WORLDWIDE TRAVEL . Airline Reservations ■ Hotel/Motel Accomodations Travel Counsel ■ Rental Car Reservations ■ Tours ■ Charter Flights ■ FREE Ticket Delivery Bob Brown 846-8718 Pam & JoAnn 410 S. Texas/Lobby of the Ramada Inn/College Station United Press International EL PASO — Professor Doctor Karl Carstens, president of the Federal Republic of Gejmany, will visit Fort Bliss for a few hours on Saturday, U. S. Army officials announced Wednesday. Carstens is visiting the United States upon an invitation of President Reagan as part of the 300th anniversary of the first German migration to North America and to emphasize and strenghthen German-American friendship, Fort Bliss spokes man Ed Starnes said. The president will be briefed on the German Air Force Air Defense School at Fort Bliss and inspect the training area Satur day afternoon, Starnes said. Carstens is scheduled to visit Philadelphia, Pa., Thursday and St. Louis, Mo. on Friday. He will visit Dallas Sunday and Monday, Seattle, Ore. on Oct. 11, Madi son Wise., Oct. 12, and New York City on Oct. 13. He returns to Germany Oct. 14. 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Neither Domenici nor O’Keeffe, who is rarely seen in public even in the small artistic community of Abiquiu in north ern New Mexico, plans to testify on the measure to reverse the 3-year-old designation which would become effective upon the death of the noted artist. “The community she lives in is a very private community and apparently residents have reacted with some disfavor at the idea of their small commun ity becoming somewhat of a tourista neighborhood,” said Domenici aide Jim Hughes. “She wants to be remembered down through the years as one of the nation’s foremost painters and is sorry to have created somewhat of a minor disruption in the local comunity,” said Hnounced the re< ran 539 miners ; ■hployees at three nia mines. 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Park Service officials, give the only scheduled mony on Domenici’s oppose it even though 9 have been completed in ration of acquisition. “We have not acquired thing so there’s not aquesi having to sell off anythiif got," spokesman Duncan row said. About 1,300 people, iw them rural residents, live area near the wooded,® nous hamlet about 15 north of Santa Fe. Aides say longtime ad: Rep. Sidney Yates, D-H- pushed through thedesj tion, will begrudgingly* duce a House bill to act® O’Keeffe’s request. TH DRIN CO BRYAN 408 South Texas Ave. (Cornerotaothst.)... 775-0188 Individually Owned & Operated IN AND OUT IN 30 MINUTES IN MOST CASES OPEN DAILY AND SAT.8-6 PM wm ALL ORDERS MUST BE GIVEN IN ADVANCE, BY PHONE An aide to Yates, t the 1 nterior Depart* appropriations subcon»] said he still believes tM should be a historic site at successfully tried to | O’Keeffe to reconsider It quest. 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