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-
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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.
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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.
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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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WASHINGTON — Painter
Georgia O’Keeffe wants Con
gress to reverse its historic desig
nation of her home so she may
be remembered for her art
rather than for disrupting her
small New Mexico village, offi
cials said Wednesday.
A Senate subcommittee will
hold a hearing Thursday on the
rare request by the reclusive
artist, now' nearly 97, and in
cluded in a bill introduced re
cently without fanfare by Sen.
Pete Domenici, R-N.M.
Historic site designation —
which allows the government to
administer property for the
public — has been reversed only
twice before in the history of the
National Park Service, officials
said.
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
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