Word: fisherfolk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...California fishers' catch. Then he disappeared from those waters." In 1935 famed stubble-headed Oceanographer Dr. Thomas Gordon Thompson, aboard his floating laboratory Catalyst, spied schools of albacore in the warm, blue waters of the Japanese Current 100 miles off the Oregon-Washington coast. He told Seattle fisherfolk of his find, and by 1937, 100 to 150 boats were at work in the new gold mine. Last year Oregon and Washington tuna-men hooked 8,887,575 lb.-over four times the California catch...