Government shutdown hits fishermen, farmers, physicists

WASHINGTON — The crabbers are getting, well, crabby. With the offices of the National Marine Fisheries Service closed because of the federal government shutdown, fishermen have been unable to get permits for the Alaska king crab season, which begins Tuesday http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-shutdown-impacts-20131012,0,1327984.story Article courtesy of The Los Angeles Times by Richard Simon