31.   Local fishermen told how outsiders used bribes to buy licenses to fish for the mollusks, then plundered the entire crop to extinction in four years.

32.   Local fishermen were not amused.

33.   Local fishermen complained, and soon after, the US government began giving financial aid to fishermen to build boats to compete with the trawlers.

34.   Local fishermen say, however, that they are not responsible for the abuses mentioned by conservationists.

35.   Local fishermen are particularly knowledgeable about their sport, Gifford said.

36.   Nowadays, the tablets tell of local fishermen lost at sea.

37.   One likely side effect of opening the spillway, however, is agitating local fishermen and conservationists concerned about marine life in estuarine Lake Pontchartrain.

38.   Other local fishermen have gone heavily into debt to suppliers on the mainland in order to modernize their equipment.

39.   Proponents of the exemption argue that the Game and Fish Commission was only taking into account the concerns of local fishermen.

40.   Schools and churches were closed, and local fishermen were forbidden to use their canoes.