The Bounty Mutiny

The fishermen around Fort Bragg, Calif., a coastal town 140 miles north of San Francisco, had just about had it with the Federal Government. Over the past six years, the fleet of 300-ft. Soviet trawlers plying their waters has grown to 17 vessels, and none of the American fishermen's protests to Washington produced any results. The Soviets, they say, are fishing inside the U.S. twelve-mile limit and depleting the salmon grounds by using small-mesh nets, forbidden to the Californians. So the men took things into their own hands. They formed a vigilante group called American Waters for American Fishermen. By last week they had collected a fund of $6,314 to use for bounties to anyone who catches a Soviet trawler inside the limit and gets the Coast Guard to impound it. No one has yet collected any of the money, but something seems to be working. For reasons unknown, seven of the 17 trawlers departed the Northern California coast last week.

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