P.M. BRIEFING : Shrimpers Get Limits Reprieve
Shrimpers, already outraged by regulations intended to protect endangered sea turtles, got a two-year reprieve from a federal panel charged with preventing overfishing in the Gulf of Mexico.
By a 10-7 vote Thursday, the Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Management Council lowered the number of red snapper that both commercial and sport fishermen may catch in 1991 but took no immediate steps to regulate shrimpers.
Instead, the council told shrimpers to work with scientists to develop by 1993 a device that would exclude red snapper, a diminishing species, from their trawls.
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