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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trials were conducted among the craggy islands in Casco Bay, near Portland, Me., where dense schools of herring drift through twisted channels. Traditionally, Maine fishermen float long nets out into the channels to shunt the herring into the waiting traps. But such nets have drawbacks. They need constant maintenance, they cannot be extended across heavily traveled waterways, they are often carried away by tidal currents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Herring Herding | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...hours later the tree was dead. Farther north, some Indians buried a white man, standing, with only his head above ground, scalped him and lit a fire close by. The heat made his brains boil and started his eyes gushing out of their sockets. In Casco Bay, Me., a merman tried to board a hunter's boat, had a "hand chopped off and sank, purpling the water with his inhuman blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Looking Glass | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

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