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Article: Red snapper limits choking fish industry.
- Article from:
- The Monitor (McAllen, TX)
- Article date:
- August 21, 2005
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Byline: Melissa McEver
Aug. 21--For 22 years, Pete McCarty has relied on red snapper for his livelihood. Once upon a time, he made up to $150,000 per year, mainly by catching and selling the saltwater fish.
Today, the Port Isabel fisherman is lucky to make $40,000.
McCarty says federal regulations limiting the days fishermen can catch red snapper are to blame for his dwindling income and fading hopes.
"Now we just get by -- there's no future in fishing," McCarty said. "There's not going to be a market left."
Because studies have suggested that red snapper are overfished throughout the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf's Fishery ...