Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tucked away in timbered, fish-oil-soaked sheds on Seattle's waterfront is a super hush-hush business : salmon egg canning. Though even Seattleites know little about it, this small-fry business is of strategic importance to fishermen everywhere...
Steelheads are the hardest of all trout to catch. Some fishermen spend a good part of three winters wading hip-deep in streams, shivering in day-long chilling rain, before landing their first one. But of all the joys of fishing, few compare with the thrill of hooking one of the fighting, silvery fish. Last week thousands of Oregon and Washington fishermen braved gasoline, tackle and whiskey shortages to try their cold-reddened hands at steel-heading...
...narrow coral formations studded with is lets, enclosing calm lagoons where volcanic cones may once have jutted (see map, p. 26). Twenty years ago, when the Japs settled down to prepare for World War II, the islands had a population of 10,000 Kanakas, lazygoing, brown-skinned Micronesian fishermen and boatmen...
Nettled Men. To meet the mounting demand, the fishermen will work every day through the month-long run; during spells of bad weather, which delays clearing the nets, many a fisherman will work from before dawn until midnight. This year they will labor anxiously. Reason: recently OPA pegged the price of herring before the run at about 3? a pound. Fishermen snorted like Paul Bunyan's blue ox, threatened to hang up their nets. OPA relented, reclassified some of them as wholesalers entitled to 7? a pound. This week, as rumors of further changes ran through the villages fringing...
...about 5,000 North-country fishermen and wholesale-house workers (who process, ice and ship fish) that is important money. To a protein-hungry America, the catch is an important dietary item. Two million pounds will go to the Army; chain food stores will get millions more. What is left will be frozen, salted or smoked...