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...incredible Great Lakes smelt situation was so described last week by Dr. John Van Oosten of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The vast smelt population of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron (where some 95% of U.S. fresh water smelts lived) had suddenly vanished. Two years ago fishermen took 5,000,000 Ib. of smelts there; last year, 1,000,000. Total catch this winter: 2 Ib. No one knew why the smelts had died...
Originally from Maine fresh-water lakes, the smelts were transplanted to Michigan's Crystal Lake in 1912 as food for salmon. The salmon unaccountably disappeared, but the smelts thrived, soon spread through the Great Lakes. In Huron and Michigan fishermen dipping for bigger fish found them a nuisance. Developed into a popular table delicacy, the silver smelts became a big industry in the past decade; prices jumped from ½ to 4? a Ib. This year OPA had counted on smelts for 10,000,000 Ib. of food...
...Green Bay, off northern Michigan, where smelts grew thickest, fishermen caught them through holes in the ice in winter, dipped them out of streams with nets when they swam upstream to spawn in spring. A terrific breeder (the female casts more than 20,000 eggs), the smelt fed on insect larvae, other fish and sometimes its own young. Green Bay fishermen began to notice something wrong last winter, when dead smelts popped up through their fishing holes in the ice. By spring great shoals of dead fish were being washed ashore and the lake bottoms were carpeted with them...
Thousands of trout fishermen west of the Mississippi use the pink-and-orange-dyed skeins of salmon eggs for bait (TIME, Jan. 31). Last week, this little business was in trouble. Reason : WPB had cut off its supply of glass containers...
...together to fight the ban. They were led by one of the big gest of them, a squat, merry ex-fishmonger named Pete Sellen (creator of the famed "Pete's trout-ticklers"). Back in 1917, Pete Sellen decided that salmon eggs, which were thrown away by fishermen, had their use. After experimenting with more than 400 solutions, he evolved a secret process of dyeing and preserving them. His brother, who had netted $16,000 cutting the cheeks off waste halibut heads and selling them for 10? apiece, financed him. The industry grew by a simple process. Employes of Sellen...