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Tuesday, November 8,1983/The Battalion/Page 5 ’* Scott, Biiuln s followii mm i * ■ ' Crimestoppers: twin bed stolen A new home under construc tion was the target of burglars on Sept. 28 at 1803 Amber Ridge in College Station. Stolen were three Hunter ceiling fans, two^ brasscut glass chandeliers with leaded glass, one Litton microwave oven, one Kitchen Aid trash compactor, and one Sears apartment re frigerator. All of the appliances were almond in color. Also taken was a Duncan Fife Anti que twin bed that was dark wal nut in color with a four poster pine apple top. More than $5,000 in proper ty was stolen. If you know where the stolen property is or have information on the persons responsible for stealing it, call Crime Stoppers at 775-TIPS. For information given this week that leads to an arrest and a grand jury indict ment, Crime Stoppers will pay $1,000 in cash. Informants will be issued a special coded num ber to protect their identity. Crime Stoppers also pays cash for information on any felony crime, or the location of any wanted felon. J.C Tr fite&enh m i ? ■ ea A tasty study break \ Shannon Selman, a junior from Spring majoring in business analysis, enjoys an more than I j aken place:!, irly 1800s. hasdiffc Technology ups yield puMishr^ 4 research ids, Sonnicks mber euds liscuss the afternoon snack of ice cream outside the Sterling C. Evans Library Monday Dave Scott, Battalion photo before heading inside to do a little homework. Ex-prof farms shrimp m<I public): _ ky D ar i a Bucuram ts hist0ria:l§ Battalion Reporter intil there 1^68, Texas A&M profes- etodiscussiHp 1 J ack Parker began trying a find ways to increase shrimp >en gradu. jeifis with technology, iity of Mince l n iygo, Sea Grant —- a state !S PhD nc | federal program that rsity m 1: na t c hes funds for marine- of Soul elated research — offered Par- d history, .eijthe opportunity to put the lent of the fechnology he had developed ociationatntp practice. That was an te Journal >pp<>rtunity he couldn’t resist. RSince Parker left Texas \&M, he has developed 140 of iisE,000 acres for shrimp farm- i^’"*T 'nd purposes. Parker says he ( olans to develop the remaining 1,860 acres of Laguna Madre, his shrimp farm, within the next five years. T hat would increase the sea- L JL son s present production from 200,000 pounds to 2 million or 3 e audience million pounds, Parker said, ipermontl Parker joked about the pro- •cl months cess. id Januan “To do this we are having to beg. borrow and steal,” Parker ums are to said. k are pretltf “Begging and borrowing are issues eitknoi working, so I’m going to campus,’ khave to start stealing,” he added with a chuckle. m will cons ; Shrimp farming provides a tiling on ofControlled environment for the tudience fc: shrimp to live and reproduce, mments afijThis happens the same way as in losingspeei the w ikf only that in the farm they are protected, Parker said. ■ v The original brood shrimp — the “mammas and pappas” — 11 . are flown in around the middle m of March from Central Amer ica’s Pacific coast, he said. Once advance at the fishery, the shrimp are dumped into ponds and then they simply do what comes natu ral, Parker said. The shrimp are born only 15 hours after conception. The young shrimp then stay in the hatchers for 15 days. Then the shrimp are stocked in ponds for 150 days before they are ready to market. Harvest season — the time when the shrimp are ready for marketing — begins in mid- November. “We take them out of the ponds and pinch their heads off,” Parker said. “The SPCA would be mad at us, but we don’t kno\v of any other way to kill them, besides, pinching off shrimp’s heads is much nicer than hacking off chickens’ heads.” Once the headless 165-day- old shrimp are frozen, they are sent to New York by truck where the highest bids — between $5 and $6 per pound — are made. Parker said Texas A&M was the pioneer in developing the technology for shrimp farming, or shrimp mariculture. The sys tem is so new that few countries have it, he said. The only coun tries that have the technology are Ecuador, Panama, Hon duras and Costa Rica. However, those countries have gone out of business. “None of them are as adv anced as we are though,” Parker said. Parker assures that shrimp farming is not hard work, at least not for him, because he leaves the heavy work to the four marine biologists who work for him. ;peechesait_ andjusticj 1 ndaries he says. iheinain : , » ire not tok T ,'ers debaif V ce to parti® “I need time to get into shape willbeh* ght. t-jljiruno 0loctn -Jk TS#- Serving Luncheon Buffet Sandwich and Soup Bar Mezzanine Floor Sunday through Friday 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. m- Delicious Food Beautiful View j ! Open to the Public “Quality First” ^ drive to go skiing in the Rockies,” Par ker said. “I’m ready to go, but the snow hasn’t started falling yet.” Learn how to . . . C&W Dance % at Valerie Martin's Gallery of Dance Arts Registration Tuesday, Nov. 8 7:30 p.m. Class starts Tuesday, Nov. 8 5^107 Dowling, C.S. 693-0352^ a rectal c cm men LA COMPAQ A DE TEATRO BILINGtlE - a Atp/ify acc/aimedyitofai&tcma/ it/inyua/ acitny comfiany - November 8 7:30p.m. MSC 201 Students w/TAMU ID.-$3.00 Non-students-$ 5.00 Tickets Available At Rudder Box Office Silver Bullet has been in training since you last saw him, and now he’s back to defend his title, like all sports legends. So watch your campus paper for details on how you can challenge the Bullet, and... GET READY TO RACE! c>1983 Adolph Coors Company, Golden. Colorado 80401