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...ship's cleaning and packing facilities and its refrigerated hold; the other team headed for the skipper's cabin to inspect the ship's log. The record of the trawler's fishing activities disclosed that the Shevchenko had significantly exceeded the permitted limit on river herring-a protected species. According to the log, most of the fish had been transferred to the trawler's mother ship, which was already outside the 200-mile zone, but 16 tons had been loaded onto a second cargo vessel, the Antanas Snechkus, which was still in U.S. waters...
...President Jimmy Carter, the boarding party informed Gupalov that his ship was now under U.S. command. As the Stars and Stripes were run up its mast, the trawler started toward Boston harbor. Two days later the cutter Reliance brought in the Snechkus and its cargo of allegedly illegal herring. At week's end the Shevchenko was still tied up in Boston, while the Snechkus was heading back to sea-but only after surrendering its 16 tons of frozen river herring as evidence of an illegal catch...
...last week. Since then, huge fleets of modern trawlers from foreign countries, most notably the Soviet Union, Japan, Poland and East Germany, have swept the prime U.S. fishing grounds off New England, the Pacific Northwest and Alaska almost clean of Atlantic cod, yellowtail flounder and haddock; stocks of hake, herring, mackerel and pollack were severely depleted...
...report which is the subject of your article and their comments; such knowledge as they believe themselves to possess stems from garbled and in part misleading newspaper leaks. Yet ignorance does not deter Prof. Feld for "discounting" the report and Prof. Kistiakowsky from dismissing it as a "red herring." Which raises serious questions about their judgment, not to speak of the value of their views on the work in which I happened to have engaged. --Richard Pipes Baird Professor of History
George B. Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus who was special assistant for science and technology for President Eisenhower, called the estimate a "red herring" earlier this week...