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Show MEXICO CALLS IT POACHING Reprehensible Practice of American Fishermen In Waters of tho Gulf. i Advices received In Washington to the effect that the three flslilm; companies com-panies opeiatlng from headquarters at i'ensacola. Mobile and Galveston, are fitting out other schooners to fish In the gulf waters have caused some disquiet dis-quiet In view of the announced Intention Inten-tion of tho Mexican government to seize every foreign vessel taking fish in Mexican waters. It appears that the Mexican government asserts that for many years American poachers have been operating within the three-rnUo three-rnUo limit, and after repeated warn lngs it has now determined to stop tho practice As the United States lias nn trrty with Muxl- granting our cltl7cus the right to fish within territorial witters thero Is no ground for protest on the part of the stato department In ense of seizures, onco the fnrt Is established flint the ves-r-els were actually within tho marine lens"c ff shore. Tl't' department Is" making nn Inquiry In-quiry now to determine that fact In case of the three vessels recently seized seiz-ed off tho coast of Yucatan, nnd meantime mean-time It Is hoped that no fresh Issues will be made. |