Word: fish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clark Clifford, the White House counsel in Truman's time, told a story of how the President dragged General Harry H. Vaughan, the controversial military aide who hated the water and boats, along on a fishing trip. When Truman caught a fish called a Schoolmaster, he showed it with pride to Vaughan. "Look, Harry," said Truman, "I caught a Schoolmaster." Vaughan, slumped miserably on the deck, said, "I don't give a damn if you caught a superintendent of education...
...Louis are two of few remaining Boston-based fishermen. Louis small boat is one of no more than eighteen boats, large and small, that go out from Boston Harbor on a regular basis. The Salvatore and other small boats fish in the Harbor itself or the Quincy bay and sell the fish daily directly to the many fish markets that line the fish pier. The bigger boats can go out for several days at a stretch and auction off their fish on return. Prices fluctuate with competition: the more boats that come in on one day, the less fish...
...less than 1,000 pounds was the exception rather than the rule and when one cod took more than one man to haul aboard. And when they trawled. "My father used to come down to the boat and spend all night baiting for us. Because we knew there were fish out there to be caught...
...Fishing is dying out as an industry in Boston because of the city's high cost of living and also because of the over-fishing all along the East Coast. Boston Fishermen blame this on the large government subsidized foreign fleets that fish as close as 12 miles to the coast, and are for a 200 mile limit...
Louis talks with a certain nostalgia of the days--only ten years ago--when Atlantic Avenue was lined with fish stores and there were two large fish piers instead of one. "You should have seen it--this whole place." He waves his arm. Louis started fishing with his father 20 years ago and then took off on his own. His two brothers work at Great Atlantic Fish Co. and come to talk to him when he brings in the day's catch in the afternoon. Joe graduated from Harvard, class of '73, and started right on fishing with Louis...