Word: fished
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...Fish & Chips. The Lisbon quake began at 9:30 a.m. on All Saints' Day, Saturday. Nov. 1, 1755. As modern earthquakes go (100,000 perished in the Tokyo-Yokohama area in 1923), it was no great shakes: it killed probably no more than 15,000 people out of a population of about 275,000. But to its contemporaries all over Europe, it was the greatest disaster since the flood...
...banks." King Joseé moved into an encampment under canvas outside the city. There were penitential processions and prayers. A few looters (including five Irishmen) were executed. The quake destroyed a great many of the city's 40-odd churches and 90 convents, as well as the "best fish market in the world." London and Hamburg sent food, building materials and money, but the principal aftereffect of the Lisbon shock was sermonizing...
Boston's fishing fleet has steadily resisted change. Fish are still scooped from the trawlers with pitchforks that damage much of the catch, trundled off in ancient, scale-covered wooden carts, dumped into insanitary oak barrels. The Fulhams plan to install modern handling equipment, are also constructing the pier's first rendering plant to convert trash fish into meal for animal food and fertilizer, thus give the fleet a profitable incentive to go after porgies and other cheap fish when good fish are scarce...
Better Days Ahead? But the industry's biggest trouble is that the multitude of small fishermen have no orderly or systematic means of getting their fish to market, thus are victims of fluctuating supply and demand...
...Fulhams hope that some of the peaks and valleys of supply and demand will be flattened by "freezing in the round"-a method devised by the Fish and Wildlife Service to enable trawlers to gut and freeze fish at sea, stay out while the fishing is good, thus build up inventories that will tide them over slack periods (the Fulhams' contribution: a method of part-thawing, preparing and refreezing the fish, which they say preserves flavor). They have offered Boston's fishermen substantial loans to modernize the fleet, and plan to revive the Boston whiting fishery, which suffered...