Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spotting a broadbill on any given day are 10 to 1. Even then the odds against hooking the fish are 15 to 1. Swordfish have to be coddled into taking a bait; with a full stomach only the most dessert-happy sword can be tempted by mackerel or squid. Fishermen have been known to make ten or more passes before a lazing giant without achieving so much as a blink from those cold blue eyes. On the wildly illogical assumption that he does swallow the bait, the battle is generally lost then and there; the only soft part...
...thrashes about, often entangling himself in the protective wire leader on the end of the line-and snaps the 500-lb.-test wire like a piece of string. Or he may charge the boat-and if he does, the boat had better get out of the way. Nantucket fishermen still talk about the time a broadbill rammed the whaling ship Fortune, ran its bill right through the hull's copper sheathing, a 3-in.-thick hardwood plank...
Commercial fishermen now take about 50 million Ibs. of the plentiful alewives from Lake Michigan each year, for processing into fish meal, fish oil, and cat and chicken food. Worried fed eral and state agents have stocked the lake with 2,000,000 steelhead trout and 300,000 coho salmon, hoping that they will take to an alewife diet and proliferate, thus bringing the ecology of the lake back into balance...
...trout, salmon and fishermen have their jobs cut out for them. Despite the deaths of hundreds of millions of ale wives in the current die-off, there are still an estimated 175 billion in Lake Michigan alone...
...purse nets 200 fathoms long and ten fathoms deep, might have overfished, Otis Smith blames current shifts. "The cold belt now extends out 40 miles," says Smith, "and out there the water's too clear and the fish avoid the net." Aggravating the situation is the fact that fishermen, unable to net menhaden at sea, have moved into the spawning fields of Chesapeake Bay. According to Biologist Kenneth Henry of North Carolina's Bureau of Fisheries, 94% of the fish caught north of Cape Hatteras in 1966 had not spawned...