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ARMS Email System Page 1 of 11 RECORD TYPE: FEDERAL (EXTERNAL MAIL) CREATOR: [email protected]@INETGEOPMRX CREATION DATE/TIME:14-DEC-1998 07:21:00.00 SUBJECT: FW: HQ E-clips for 14 December TO: 'Armstrong, Fulton' ( armstrong_f@A1@CD ) (NSC) READ: 14-DEC-1998 07:47:29.47 TEXT: > Original Message > From: Devilbiss, Andrew PO > Sent: Monday, December 14, 1998 7:00 AM > To: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; lst-Press Clips; > [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: HQ E-clips for 14 December > > Cod fishermen face foul choices > Jacksonville wants to put shellfish to work cleaning bay > U.S. Says Chinese Smuggling Ring Used Tribal Land > New US courthouse judged too pricey > Cuban exiles lose test of U.S. resolve > Out-of-sight ship fire hard to fight > Coast Guard Picks Boeing Explorer for Armed Helo Tests > > > > > > > > Cod fishermen face foul choices > To save species, regulators weigh 3 options, all dreaded > By Scott Allen, > BOSTON GLOBE > WAKEFIELD - Fisheries officials said yesterday they will slash cod fishing > in the Gulf of Maine > by 80 percent next year in a drastic attempt to restore the species, and > warned that government > will have to pick up the pieces of a fishing industry that stands to be > similarly decimated. > > Fishermen predicted that the clampdown on fishing in the Gulf of Maine, > which includes the > near-shore waters from northern Massachusetts to eastern Maine, will drive > many small-boat > owners out of business because their vessels aren't equipped for fishing > farther from shore, > leaving them nowhere to go. > > But, faced with a new biological study that found the once-bountiful cod > population has reached > a dangerous low, members of the New England Fishery Management Council