Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 4, 1982 Page: 7 of 32
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Two fishermen side by side may use different equipment, but they both want the same
thing—fish. The croakers have been slipping out little by little, but excursions into the
backwaters show that there are still a lot of little flounder lurking behind and a lot of
the larger ones just seem to be sitting there waiting for something to spark the run.
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From 1977 to 1981, 695,911
tagged shrimp were released off
Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi,
Alabama and Mexico, and
National Marine Fisheries Ser-
vice figures show shrimpers
recovered 42,677 of them for
marine biologists seeking new
data about shrimp.
“This information has been
very valuable to us in determin-
ing at what point we get the
most pounds and dollars out of
the crop, and whether to harvest
small or big shrimp,” said
biologist Terry Leary of the Gulf
of Mexico Fisheries Council.
A fisherman in Galveston Bay
recovered a shrimp that swam
all the way from Caillou Lake,
200 miles away, the farthest any
of them traveled.
An intriguing finding is that
shrimp appear not to cross the
Mississippi River’s mouth, so
that scientists monitoring stocks
on one side could fail to notice a
decline in stocks on the other
side,
In addition, “It used to be
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one year, and it’s still clear the
majority of them live only one
year,” said Dr. Edward Klima,
director of the Marine Fisheries
lab in Galveston. “But we’ve
discovered some of them have
lived up to three and four
years.”
The tag or “streamer” is a
small piece of orange or blue
plastic one-quarter inch wide.
Shrimpers finding a tagged
shrimp in their nets called the
fisheries service, and an agent
was dispached to pick it up and
send it to Galveston.
Shrimpers received rewards of
$500, $100 and $50 from
computerized drawings every
couple of months.
“I don’t know any that didn’t
turn them in,” said John
Mialjevich, president of the
300-member Concerned Shrimp-
ers of Louisiana. “I feel the
people were very cooperative.”
Shrimper Charles Racca, 29,
of Cameron, won a $100 prize
for netting a tagged shrimp with
a computer-selected winning
number.
“I know one fellow who was
butterfly-netting out of West
Cote,” Racca said. “He must
have caught 50 or 60 of them.
Never won nothing. I found
seven or eight. I won twice.
“I’ve been looking for that
$500 shrimp.” he said. ‘Tvp
still got one shrimp in the
freezer with a fair on it
Researches got together Aug.
24-27 in Vera Cruz, Mexico, to
exchange information and plan
for future years.
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Wallace, David. Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 4, 1982, newspaper, November 4, 1982; Port Aransas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth623578/m1/7/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ellis Memorial Library.