Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these two classes of fishermen who have been most interested in recent months in the possible development of an entirely new fishery along the New England coast, a shrimp fishery, which promises to be a profitable supplement to the activities of some, and to fill a badly felt winter gap for others. If such an industry does develop, and there are now indications that it will, it will be one of the first and most tangible results of Harvard's Tercentenary Celebration. For it was one of the men brought over from Europe to be honored at the Celebration...
Some forty years ago, when he was searching with fine-meshed, nets in one of the Norwegian fjords for young cod, he brought up from the muddy bottom of deep water, where fishermen had not previously reached with their gear, quantities of shrimps...
Although it has long been known that the same species of shrimp found in Norway is to be found also along the coast of North America from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia, fishermen have not generally known of its abundance, or, knowing it, have not attempted to develop a market. Consequently when Dr. Hjort came here last year as a guest of Harvard, and also of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (of which Professor H. B. Bigelow is director), he set about at once to learn whether the shrimps are as abundant here as they are in Europe...
...then persuaded two fishing organizations, the Federated Fishing Boats of New England and New York, and the Fishermen's Relief Corporation of Maine, to carry on the explorations under his direction. Accordingly the fishing schooner "New Dawn" was given over for this work, and, amid a fanfare of newspaper publicity, spent the month of October shrimp fishing...
...upshot of all this is that a market has been made already for northern shrimps--the newspapers have made the public shrimp-conscious, especially in Maine--and several fishermen are planning to buy, or have already bought, the necessary equipment with which to begin shrimping. What success they will have is yet to be seen...