Word: australian
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...starts spawning only after nine years and is usually caught much younger, southern bluefin hasn't reproduced enough to repopulate. In the 1960s fishers took 80,000 tons, mostly for tinned food. As stocks dwindled, the catch was limited to around 12,000 tons a year for the Japanese, Australian and New Zealand operators...
...Stehr's catch quota of about 300 tons makes him one of the bigger Australian operators. But if his plan works, by the end of 2009 his company will be selling farm-bred tuna without any quota restrictions. He's aiming for at least 5,000 tons a year...
...remembered. He is recognized as the finest coach in the history of rugby league in Australia. Winner of five premierships between 1974 and 1983, he was last month named Coach of the Century by a panel of experts that chose a greatest-ever Australian team to mark rugby league's centenary year. Said Wayne Bennett, the closest thing to a Gibson successor: "So much of everything a coach has today is because...
...Honolulu, the Australian interloper met Chuck Knox, who was in charge of the Los Angeles Rams, and became friends for life with then San Francisco 49ers head coach Dick Nolan. "I went because I was looking to learn something," Gibson said years later. "Their game is the same as ours. They're looking for the same type of individual": huge, fast, tough...
...Gibson brought back ideas that forever changed rugby league, which at the time was played and coached, even at the highest level, by amateurs. He made strength training compulsory for his players, and introduced video analysis and a preoccupation with statistics into the Australian game. Among these stats was the "tackle count" - a record of each player's contribution in defense. "I might have read it in Sports Illustrated," Gibson said, "where in the American game it takes more talent, experience and a tougher individual to be a defensive player than a runner." Gibson even started to sound like...