TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- There's a perhaps unexpected casualty of the bingo debate in Alabama: Some University of Alabama students who were to receive scholarships from bingo casinos won't be getting them because the bingo halls have been shut down, the Crimson White student newspaper reports.

Meet Tondra Johnson, a freshman biology major who won't be receiving a $3,500 scholarship she had been counting on from Greenetrack in Greene County. Johnson told the Crimson White she'll now have to find another way to pay for her books and housing.

The emergency regulation, signed by Conservation Commissioner Barnett Lawley on Tuesday, closes the Gulf waters west of longitude 88 degrees 4.5 minutes west to all fishing activity.

Updates to any further fishing closures in state waters will be posted to www.outdooralabama.com as needed.

The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources first announced the closure on Tuesday, though further details were made available today.

Federal officials have closed some federal waters to fishing and have repeatedly revised the boundaries of that closure.

Maj. Chris Blankenship, chief of enforcement with the Alabama MarineResources Division,  saidthe closure line for federal waters begins about where the Beach Clubon the Fort Morgan peninsula is located, or roughly due south of themouth of the Bon Secour River where it empties into Mobile Bay (87degrees 51 minutes W longitude).

Federal waters to the west have beenclosed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, whilewaters off Gulf Shores and Orange Beach are open.