Word: fished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...others were difficult to feed, but Chester can forage for himself. Chewing gum and erasers are his favorite delicacies. All the menagerie could live on fish-food, however, the Freshman menagerie owners insist...
...goodly number of representatives of the Governors of coastal states from Texas to Maine will present themselves, next week, to the Secretary of Commerce. "Consider the fish," Mr. Hoover will...
Consider the herring. Its 60-odd species give it the rank of the world's most eaten fish. It abounds in the northern Atlantic, swims in schools of hundreds of millions. Its infants are smoked, canned, sold as sardines. Its younger set, coming shoreward for the first time to spawn, are caught as whitebait. The largest, known as "herring king," is named shad. He is dark blue above, white beneath and carries as much as ten pounds of most delectable flesh. But?and this is the fact Mr. Hoover will emphasize?37,000,000 less pounds of shad were caught...
...another thing can be done by the public and the fisheries?learn. Ignorance excludes many a worth-some sea creature from the common diet. Gunners, sea mussel, goosefish, shark, skates, rays, tilefish, sea robins, black drums?all are waiting to be introduced to the U. S. fish knife...
Bingham. Into Miami cruised the black Pawnee, sleek yacht of Henry Payne Bingham of Manhattan. On her decks were bucket-mouthed, serpentine fish, a sea-cow, glass sponges, monster iguanas (lizards) from Swan Island (300 miles south of Cuba), giant shrimps with pincers like lobsters. The Pawnee had been seeking the rhynodontypicus, a species of leviathan taken near Swan Island in 1912. Among the tales the mariners told was that of a .vast elemental shape the Negroes called "Sapodilla Tom," which surged up beneath the boat, lifted his dorsal and was gone. Off the coast of Honduras, "a great winged...