Word: snechkus
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...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...
...seize the trawler had been approved by 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...
When the Coast Guard later encountered the Shevchenko and the Snechkus, seizure was recommended by the State Department, and the President gave the green light. Carter explained his action to reporters who stopped him outside the First Baptist Church of Calhoun, Ga., where he was observing the Easter holidays. "We just had to draw the line somewhere," the President said...
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