Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Japanese built that was still intact after the war. Even what survived was seldom maintained, such as the once excellent water system on the island of Dublon, in Truk lagoon, now rusting in disuse, or the jungle-swallowed road on Babelthuap that once enabled outlying copra farmers and fishermen to bring their goods to market...
...Greece, and recurrently he reached back to it in memory from wherever he went. Today, 67 and in retirement, he lives in a beautiful house behind the Athens stadium. He likes to eat well, drink well, trade ideas with good companions, and idle away an hour with sailors and fishermen at the harbor...
...fishing treaties preclude other nations, notably the Japanese, from fishing closer to Alaska than 175° west longitude, the fish themselves cross that line in the course of their circular migration. As a result, Japanese catches helped to deplete the supply available in Alaskan rivers this summer for U.S. fishermen...
...coming, Alaska's state government limited fishing. The number of legal fishing days was cut this year and 600,000 more salmon than the state had originally planned were thus allowed to escape upstream in the tributaries of Bristol Bay to procreate the catches of future years. Alaskan fishermen, who caught 64 million salmon last year, will take in no more than 24 million in all of 1967. For Bristol Bay fishermen, this means an average income for the season of $1,320, or a meager fifth of what they make in a good year...
...cycle of three good years and two bad ones. Next year seems likely to be the second bad one in the current go-round. Governor Hickel is considering closing Bristol Bay for the entire summer of 1968 to allow the salmon population to recover. The state is also urging fishermen to put up their boats for the year and find temporary employment elsewhere. Unless they do, Alaska's greatest natural resource may go the same sad way of fur trading and gold prospecting, which dominated the economy before the salmon harvests became so abundant...