Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Transpace Carriers, a two-year-old Maryland firm that plans to use NASA rockets to put satellites aloft, accused Arianespace, its European rival, of using government subsidies to submit low-cost bids for American contracts. Transpace wants the French firm to charge the same price for U.S. launches as it does for European ones. Among the jobs Arianespace has won is a $125 million award to launch five General Telephone & Electric orbiters...
...itself are now threatened. Watermen have been saying for years that the Chesapeake is dying. Now others are confirming their complaint. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, after making a $28 million six-year study, concluded in 1983 that the Chesapeake is clearly an ecosystem in decline. Says Maryland Governor Harry Hughes: "Time is running out for the Chesapeake. If we do not take action to save the bay, there may be no point in taking it tomorrow; it may be too late...
...concern is timely. Fish catches have been dropping dramatically. The haul of shad, which topped the 17 million-lb. mark in the late 19th century, dropped below 2.5 million Ibs. during the late '70s, and in 1980 Maryland banned all shad fishing. Striped bass are also disappearing. In 1973 fishermen sold 5 million Ibs. of stripers, or rockfish, as they are called in Maryland. Last year's harvest was under...
Larry Simns, President of the Maryland Waterman's Association, says that declining catches are forcing him and his fellow fishermen out of business. As Tilghman Islander William Roulette points out, "We all must work part-time ashore." The Chesapeake fleet of skipjacks, sail-driven oyster dredges, has dropped from more than 100 boats to 30; the number of working watermen has shrunk from 7,500 in the '50s to about...
...attempt to deal with pollutants threatening the bay, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia, with federal help, are jointly trying to identify and battle the problems. The cleanup campaign will be costly. Though the President's visit raised hopes that he will sign legislation providing $40 million to improve the bay, the Federal Government has thus far set aside only a modest $10 million. Maryland, the state most affected by the bay's deterioration, has appropriated $36 million in state funds to finance antipollution efforts, but the other affected states have passed Chesapeake cleanup...