Word: fish
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...luck to see one, but a few weeks ago a neighbor saw three of them, presumably a female and two cubs, at the edge of a pond a few hundred feet from my house in central New Hampshire. We can all rest easy, however, because the state's fish and game commission has opened a five-week bear-hunting season in our county. Since Oct. 1, the hairy-eared fellows who keep two big-game rifles racked in the back windows of their pickups 52 weeks each year, in case World War III starts, have been blasting away...
...Monitor story told of a local farmer who had been pestered by bears getting into his feed corn. Had to shoot two last year, he said. A fish-and- game-commission biologist said, "Rather than have farmers kill the bears, we would rather have sportsmen utilize the resource." You get used to blood- sport bureaucratese; "utilize,"or "harvest," is what you do when you get something fuzzy and four-footed in your sights. As in most states, New Hampshire's fish and game policies often seem to be caught in a time warp, perhaps in the decade of the 1820s...
February 9: Harvard battles fish andother underwater creatures to claim a 4-2 win inCornell's infamous Lynah Rink...
...When goalie John Devin '88 played his last game at Cornell's Lynah Rink, what did Big Red fans throw at him? (Hint: it's not fish...
Some nations, notably West Germany, are considering a new bookkeeping system to take account of the environmental costs of economic production. Present measures of gross national product were developed in the 1930s, when natural resources seemed infinite. In the Philippines today, renegade coastal villagers harvest fish by dynamiting tropical reefs. Under current accounting methods, this practice shows up as contributing to the GNP, with no adjustment for the depletion of the fisheries that results from the destruction of the reefs...