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Hardest-hit is the saltwater fisherman. Outside of surf and bay fishing, there are only a few spots where saltwater angling is allowed: notably in the Pacific off Southern California's Santa Monica pier, where chartered boats may go as far as ten miles offshore ; in some parts of the Florida keys ; and the famed tarpon paradise at Aransas Pass in Texas. To fish in any salt waters requires a Coast Guard Permit...
...vigor is almost overwhelming. He was catcher on his varsity baseball team, is a good fisherman, hunts with the sportsman's single-barreled shotgun, golfs with the natural American combination of a he-man's long drive and a duffer's inability to break...
Died. Harry Baur, 62, famed French character actor; in Paris. Fisherman, soap salesman, fruit vendor, teacher, he took a face as mobile as a surrealist potato on to the stage in the late 1800s, was a bright star in the theater for more than 30 years, the French cinema's Laughton-Jannings for the past twelve...
...most West Coast fishermen, Captain Vilicich is a year-round worker, goes after tuna from April to July, sardines from August to March. On his boat he took in $112,000 last year. His crew collected $61,000; he got all the rest. This kind of money has made Fisherman Vilicich the next thing to an economic royalist: he owns his ship (value: $30,000), a share in a San Francisco sardine plant, a comfortable, two-story house, sends his son to Santa Clara University...
...fishing industry was making money galore. But the 125,000 U.S. fishermen had something else that was new-prestige. For the first time since Plymouth Rock, the fisherman was absolutely vital to the nation's food supply, as needed and respected as the rancher, the farmer...