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Re: Welcome to new members

Message forwarded from the brine shrimp listserv.

Barry

>Status: U
>Date:         Thu, 6 Nov 1997 08:44:30 -0500
>Reply-To: Brine Shrimp Discussion List <BRINE-L at UGA_CC.UGA.EDU>
>Sender: Brine Shrimp Discussion List <BRINE-L at UGA_CC.UGA.EDU>
>From: "Howard W. Newman" <BShrimp at aol_com>
>Subject:      Re: Welcome to new members
>Comments: To: terri at francomm_com
>To: BRINE-L at UGA_CC.UGA.EDU
>
>Dear Terri et al,
>
>This is to inform the list members that the Brine Shrimp Harvesting season at
>the Great Salt Lake was halted by emergency action of the Utah Division of
>Wildlife Resources last week with a slight provision that they may reopen the
>season in a month or so.  This provision was in place for the possibility
>that the ongoing baseline research might show an increase in available cysts
>material later....this did not occur and the Division sent a letter yesterday
>to all harvesting companies that the season is closed until next October.
>
>I do not have to remind everyone of the ramifications of this action as 1995
>should be in everyone's recent memory bank.  Although there are adequate
>inventories of lower grade Artemia cysts there will be a shortage of premium
>product.  These lower grade products will be consumed rather quickly as the
>"new" has precipitated the usual type of panic buying from large cyst
>consuming countries.
>
>The reason for the emergency closure is due to lower salinity levels on the
>South Arm of the GSL which is where the harvesting takes place.  This lower
>salinity is a direct result of the lack of exchange between the North Arm
>(288 ppt) and the South Arm (100-110 ppt) and is a condition not likely to go
>away soon.
>
>Regards,
>
>howard w. newman
>

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