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...home to the U.S. Then he drew out a measuring stick and found that the inside of my second suitcase didn't correspond with the outside. I was invited to a little room where they ripped out the bottom of the suitcases and discovered my haul...
Fishermen in modern, mechanized trawlers can easily draw bottom fish off the ocean floor with a kind of vacuum cleaner or haul in whole finny schools in a single huge seine net. Industrialized nations, like runners poised in their starting blocks, are awaiting only one thing before the race for the sea resources begins in earnest. They have to know who has legal title to all that wealth...
...global seafood haul has more than doubled since 1950, and the sustainable catch limits have already been reached in some species: the American lobster, halibut, haddock, tuna, cod and salmon. French Diplomat Michel Lennuyeaux-Comnene, a spokesman on fisheries policies, says that the seas are being so badly overfished that there may well be "no more fishing" in only 20 years. He warns: "We're literally eating our capital...
...situation is that a produce hauler, going from California to Boston with a load of lettuce, must legally return empty to pick up his next load; and there aren't many cattle or produce runs west out of New England. Thus a fourth and rather common option is to haul illegal loads and hope not to get caught. The trucker who goes, though, runs the risk of expensive fines...
Asked about possible common interests between the independent truckers, many of whom haul produce, and the United Farm Workers, Parkhurst says, "It would take a lot of education to explain to truckers what the common round was, what the average trucker, at this stage of the game, could care less whether those grapes and lettuce are picked by machines, Mexicans, Negroes, blacks, colored, or whatever they're called, as long as he gets that load. Now, if it could be shown to them that the following things could be accomplished by aligning themselves either with or against the United Farm...