Word: fish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early 1950s, Japan's Board of Fisheries began an elaborate campaign to find new fishing grounds. Systematically, its scientists collected data on water temperatures, current flows, plankton and weather conditions all over the world's oceans, including the North and South Atlantic and Antarctic waters. Its survey ships cruised everywhere, watching for clues that pointed to fish...
Currents for Tuna. Main target was tuna, a surface fish that is usually found far from land and therefore is not claimed as the property of any nation. Japanese scientists found that the different species of tuna inhabit different ocean currents. So the bureau's ships started at known tuna-fishing grounds and followed the currents. At intervals they fed out buoyed lines. Usually they caught little or nothing; most of the vast ocean is poor in fish. Then, suddenly, the water would come alive with tuna. Hungry Japan acquired another source of food...
...general public knows little about the art of bathroom painting, connoisseurs know that the best men in the field like to start early. The real artists are careful about the materials they use, too. With a cunning rarely equaled in recent Harvard history, a special variety of low-grade fish oil was included in the paint mixtures...
...play for the smaller catch, the Club's secretary, Peter J. Enderlin '61 is investigating an electronic method in which fish are attracted by electrical impulse. Discovered by a German scientist named Kreutzer, to whom Enderlin has written for advice, the system utilizes the finding that fish emit and are attracted by characteristic signals, similar to bird calls. The Club hopes to land tuna by this method...
Giles Mead, director of the Ichthyological Laboratory of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and an expert on the deep-dwelling fish of the open ocean, will become Curator of Fishes at the Museum of Comparative Zoology on April...