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MARINETTE, WtS. EAGLE-STAR o, n,ooo MAY 3 0 1575 ,, ' "* V- V Commercial Fishermen Idled By Federal Action PEfth, Minn. (AP) - About really too much of a hazard if 40 commercial fishermen ere that's the case." temporarily out of tmiinees and But his livelihood is tied to upset over the federal govern catching, with long seine nets, ment's decision to ban inter* the fisn that sport fishermen state shipment of contaminated disdain. . Breituog normally hauls in 7. should stop the fellows 000 to 9,000 pounds of fish, that are dumping the stuff," mostly carp, threa or four says'Steve Breitung, the only times n week. He sells them to full-time fishermen In this tiny wholesaler Buzz Hogue for five Mississippi River community. cents a pound, which means a "They act like we're polluters." gross of 11,090 to 11,900 weekly. The U.5. Food and Drug Ad ministration (FDA) has out Brietung said his catches net lawed the shipment of carp him an income comparable to a with certain levels of poly local teacher. chlorinated biphenyls (PCBsTr > Hogue also feels the frustra Breitung, SO, questions the health hatard of the carp with the PCB. He says an FDA offi cial has said a person would bava to eat the nab dally for three years before dangerous -fovaU.of the chemical oould be meaaured. . ' "I don't see how they can tion because he depeods on carp for 70 per cent of his busi ness. "Ill just have to get carp elsewhere," he says. "I'm go ing to haul in fish from legal areas and keep in business." He normally buys w.ooo to 90.000 pounds of fish each week from Lake Pepin fishermen, which means from 1800,000 to eonsfctar it a Who oats Pah three years? I health hatard. every dev <or don't think it's 1290.000 will be going to com mercial fishermen elsewhere. He figures there are about a down full-time fishermen on the lake. Hogue ships the Osh to East Coast markets. , The Idle Breitung is taking a wait-and-see attitude. "I'll kind j I of ride it out for a while. ,Maybe I'll go on wefare," he quipped. "!'m not really trained for anything besides a flsharman." His father, Earl, went into semiretiroment two years ago after fishing for a living for more than 90 years. Breintung thinks the govern ment should check the game fish also. "I'm sure some of these game fish fish have in it thm " He feels the ban is applied, unfairly to carp. "Either they're sale they're not," he adds. HONS 031300