In Brief. .. . Dum pin g dropped almo'>t 600 ,OC 0 to n'> dur ing 1976 alone. from K,!H~ I ,500 ton., to K,3 19 , 00 lon ~ The drop WSwordfish, Oysters, di,>po h!s, whic h Ild l almost 21 pe rcent rom the 1975 level. and Shrimp Poachers In the ull of c ko, tnd u .. trial wa\[c dl ... po .. al ha ... been ... Ia,hed to 7 pcrcent (II the tonnage uumpcJ tn I 73 . Mean- \\ hile. J ... Iight Increa.,e In ocean dl"'- p )"'dlnt e .... agt ludge .... a nnted . . . . South Carolina' fir t two rod Ullrtbuted partl) to .,hnmp ahundan \!. , uth arolina' fall ~hit and reel swordfi h were docked in but mo"tl} to mnrL' efflCh.:nt patrol . hrimp at h ~a., expect d to be Charleston in early Augu l. The boats ...... ell orIn.... normal' perhap the Florida-de eloped night-ti hing te h Bullfrog ulture rna} b om a .... or... t In recent )eaf -occau e the nique which took the 360- and 4 \ profitabl indu trj In Lpul~lana If re 'peC::II':" fadeJ to re o\cr from the ex pound wordfi hue a squid rigged on ~earchcr,> can ..,olve le\!ulng prohlem ... ceptlonall) cold .... Inter that all but a trolling line, followed 2-3 feet behlOd and tan get a "~uper Irog" to pa .... n on \qpcd out the population. a corJing to by a mall cylmdrical chemical light command. the Loul iunJ WIldltle unJ the WIlJllk ant! 1anne Re ... ource taped to the leader. A the boat dnfts Fisheries ommis"'lOn repnn... huut Depanmcnt il t )c<.tr· catch 01 !<.tll with the current, line i relea ed, and one tn ever) hundreJ laJplllc,> qUldl~ whltc hrimp In the tate amounted to the bait ink to 250-300 feet here, gro~ to a'> much :.\\ 1 pnunJ In 4 :! .7 mtlll()n round /heaJ 011) ..... orth apparently attracted by the light. the month .... sa) \tlenll ... t\ \ lmt huilirog' 4.9 mllilDn. or 44 per ent 01 the total swordfi h take it .... v.eigh on I) 1 1-1 1 puunJ at IO - I:! \ alue at the hnmp calch I r the) ear .... Last summer's he apeake Sr .... n ... hnmp, un,dletted b) he cold Bay oyster set bodes well f r the 19 0 \\Inter. u"uaJl~ ma~e up onl) about 30 harvest according to earl) Ie t plate percent of the \late', com mer ial reading , the Maryland Department of ~hnmp catch Natural Resource report . Monitor ome 4,956 trip d ba \\.r found " exceptionally good etting" tagged by the Call1nrnid DcpJnmenl f on test plate in central and lower bay F",h anJ Game in the un JouqulO RI\er area in mid-summer, th ugh they near Antim:h la t ... pnng. abllUt 20 per cautioned that the e tent of the real et tent of \\ hlCh \\ ere tagg~J \\ Ilh : r on natural bar and planted hell would . 10 fe\\ ard tag reel hecker noted not be known until late fall or early 2 I ,63) mped ba' In an Francl ... 0 winter. Said oy ter propagation chief Sa) rea angler' Cilt he ... In IY 6, Harold A. Davi , " Many of our te t compar~d \\Ith 2 ,0:' Ifl 197: Part) plates contained anywhere from 200 to hout~ reponed taJ...mg 10. II \triper~ 300 spat, whereas last um mer, plate J un ng 12.263 a n g ! erda)~ in 1976. <1\ contained from zero to half a dozen ." eraging O. 7 ti h per angler da). Com Improved sal inities up to 16 ppt in parable fig ure for 19 5 \\ ere I I, 92 lower bay areas" might be responsibl e fi, hand 0.99 fi:. h per angle r da) .... for the improved test plate ets," Davi nook, ometime peared b) Rana caresbeiana added .. .. dher around rock~ jettie in Te\ a , .... Texas game wardens confis are apparentl ) mcrea ing there 3 cord cated some 60,000 pounds of Gulf month pa t metamorpho i . Howe er. ing to the Park and \Vildllfe Depart shrimp during the cl o ed ea on, 1 re earcher note that until the frog:. c n ment. ome no k al\\. a) \\ere found June - 15 July 1977, the Park and be paw ned under c ntrolled condi .... hen there w a~ a cold -weather fish kill Wildlife Department has reported . The tions, large- cale culture will be ham along the lower coa t, but more of the amount was double th at seized last pered .... prized ti ' h are no\ showing up on year . Wardens also apprehended 122 .... Wastes dumped off U.S. At trin ger and biologi t are findin g boats, 37 more than last year, in the lantic and Gulf coasts declined for the more nook in cove rotenone sam 45-day period and $20,000 in fines third consecutive year, according to piing . A ummer ample in Lower were collected from 171 cases filed . " Ocean Dumping in the United States: Laguna Madre found ]5 snook ranging Revenue from the confiscated seafood Fifth Annual Report ," by the En up to 15 pound with an average weight was $74,000. The increa e in cases was vironmental Protection Agency . f 1 1(2 pound ....
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