Word: fish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...August is the off-season for the Canadian lobster fishermen. When they're not lobstering, they spend their time long mining. Long mining is a laborious process in which the fishermen drop a 10,000-yd. long rope with fish lines spliced into it at 6-ft. intervals into the water. The fishermen haul up the rope and remove the catch, rebaiting every line as they go along...
...tournament commenced from idyllic Mateghan wharf with the Crimson venturing out in a lobster-fishing rig named the Mary Jane, skippered by a one-armed graybeard named Melbourne. Melbourne and his crew of two prepared an al fresco fish chowder for the Crimson fishermen's lunch. "They would pull a fish out of the water, filet it, and throw it in the pot," Purdy says...
...Harvard boat was crammed with 359 lbs. of mackerel. This was good, but not good enough, for the Lock Haven boat had espied the school before anyone else and had thus been able to catch a whopping 1,502 lbs. of fish in the first...
...final day of the tournament, the Crimson fishermen had the ignominious distinction of failing to hook a single fish. "It's just unheard of not to catch a fish all day," Zewinski says. Actually, the team was not completely shut out, since Zewinski caught a 6-in. sea robin and hauled in a large clam shell from the ocean bottom. The squad also spotted a female whale but decided not to give chase...
Thanks in part to Harvard's disappointing finish the U.S. was edged out for the Nova Scotia International Trophy, as the Canadian colleges caught 3,599 lbs. of fish altogether, 27 lbs. more than the Americans...