Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conservationist's Nightmare. The unexpected decision shocked the combine, which had spent $2,500,000 planning its smaller dams. And it enraged some 200,-ooo politically potent sports fishermen throughout the Northwest. The dams that industrialized the Northwest have blocked great runs of Chinook salmon and steelhead trout as they swarm in from the sea to spawn far upstream. Since pre-dam 1928, the commercial salmon catch on the Columbia River alone has decreased more than 50%. Millions have been spent on devices to help mature fish climb dams, get tiny fingerlings back safely through turbine blades...
...five fishermen from Cambridge who can garner a coach or faculty adviser will find themselves fishing for free on the high seas off the coast of Nova Scotia if they can finance their transportation and lodgings...
Wedgeport is in an area of the Navo Scotia fishing banks that has attracted fishermen fom distant places since the sixteenth century...
...Tuna Match, Yale points out, is much more than a fishing match. Although part of the success of the original 1956 match was the capturing of a 630 pound tuna by Al Wood-Prince, captain of Yale's team, the sponsors "were also gratified" by the number of local fishermen who joined the overflow audiences...
...Crimson fishermen have apparently been neglecting their sport. Anyone interested in upholding school honor should write Edward C. Migdalski, Yale fishing coach...