Subject: (utah-sailing) Sailing Related Political Message
Date: 07 Nov 2000 07:59:17 -0700
I received these two messages earlier today....
(message 1)
A couple hundred years ago a bunch of your ancestors were busy fighting
and dying so that you could have the right to choose your own leaders today.
You folks of all people know what it meant to sail on one of those little ships that wouldn't go to weather with the crummy sails and lousy
navigation gear to get out of the control of despots who would not allow their oppressed countrymen to vote.
If you are a female you need to remember that Susan B. Anthony was tossed in jail only 85 years ago for attempting to be a woman voter.
I am not going to mention any particular candidate and I hope that none of the rest of you will go so low as to even hint on this list about who you support. This list is not the place for that discussion.
Just make certain that you cast a ballot. It is not a right or a
Subject: Re: (utah-sailing) GSL News: Record Shrimp Harvest
Date: 30 Nov 2000 09:34:53 -0700
I am so confused....
If a record harvest means a depressed market, why don't they stop harvesting sooner? I guess its just hard for those brine shrimp egg farmers to leave those crops standing in the fields after all that work planting them, nurturing them, fertilizing them, and protecting them from noxious weeds and wildlife. Perhaps we need government price supports to even out this booom and bust cycle?
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A record 19.3 million pounds of brine-shrimp eggs were pulled from the lake's salty waters this year. The harvest topped the previous record of 14.7 million pounds taken during the 1995-1996 season.
With the bulk of the harvesting over for most shrimp companies, it is now time to start worrying about the price.
The large harvest means the price is definitely going to go down. The critical question is how much the price will drop, said Doug Karlberg, a co-owner of Utah-based Oosik Fisheries.
He noted only about 25 percent of the harvest will result in finished product that can be sold as food for shrimp, fish and other aquatic animals. Much of the harvested weight reported by the DWR consists of dirt, debris and water that is discarded.
The price of a pound of brine-shrimp eggs ready for delivery was as high as $50 a month ago. It is now around $25 a pound, Karlberg said. "And who knows? It could go as low as $6 or $7 a pound."
Karlberg said some of the industry's worst financial years have occurred when the harvest was good. "You just have to hope the price will hold at a level high enough so that everyone can keep on working," he said.
