Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Being a member of the Ocean City, Md., marlin fleet, I was very glad to see your story on commercial long lining [Jan. 28]. However, your article states that a pair of charter-boat skippers roared out and carved up the long lines with their boat propellers. These lines were in fact pulled up and cut with knives-and anything else handy-aboard considerably more than two boats. In the light of what long lining will do to sport fishing, I would consider it unwise for anyone to set one within the operating range of our fleet. MITCH MIORANA Ocean...
...They're a group of people in the same boat as I am -- anyone up at that hour is desperate and there's a certain bond of desperation that makes partners...
Gone, Overnight. One top sport-fishing hole so far seems safe: Panama's Piñas Bay (TIME, July 10, 1964), where hundreds of marlin and thousands of sailfish were boated last year. Maybe the commercial fishermen were too busy elsewhere. Off Montauk Point, N.Y., where a favorite sport is fishing for sharks, commercial fishermen have practically eliminated the scrappy and tasty porbeagle. The pressure is growing at Maryland's "Jack Spot," the summer home of the tough little (world's record: 161 lbs.) white marlin. Until commercials showed up in the Jack Spot last summer...
...lines" -ropes or metal cables anywhere from two to 60 miles in length with baited hooks attached every twelve to 25 ft. The long lines are left in the water for 24 hours or more, supported by buoys and equipped with radar beacons to spot their location for the boat. Fish hooked on the long lines fight hopelessly against the miles-long cable until they drown or are mutilated by sharks. Off Baja California one day last spring, enraged Mexican sport fishermen counted more than 300 sailfish on the 2,000 hooks of a single long line. The line...
...Jamaica last summer, sport fishermen blasted away at a long liner's glass floats with rifles. In Acapulco, only the timely arrival of a Mexican coast-guard boat averted a shooting match between charter-boat vigilantes and a Japanese long liner armed with a machine gun. And last July, when a flotilla of Norwegian long liners steamed into Maryland's Jack Spot, a pair of charter-boat skippers roared out and carved up the long lines with their boats' propellers...