41. The primary industry of Port O'Connor is sportfishing and tourism, with shrimping very close behind. 42. Several animal protection groups have called for permanent closure of waters off Padre Island to commercial fishing and shrimping . 43. But his administration has stepped up enforcement by state game wardens of laws to protect the turtles from shrimping . 44. "That will at least pay the grocery bill _ shrimping won't this year ." 45. Fredine cited the shrimping industry's troubles with low prices as another reason to shut off the diversion. 46. The Vietnamese first moved into the Galveston Bay Area in the 1970s and established shrimping businesses with borrowed money. 47. In 1987, the United States required all trawling shrimping boats to equip their nets with turtle excluder devices. 48. Darien has a small but elite shrimping fleet, for example, and is reputed to have the finest shrimp. 49. The groups called for the shrimping ban in a letter to Rolland Schmitten, National Marine Fisheries Service assistant administrator. 50. Georgia waters are presently closed to shrimping and all the boats are fishing offshore in federal waters, he said.
