Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yellowfin tuna are running good this year in the broad waters of the Humboldt Current off the coast of Ecuador, one of the richest fishing grounds in the world. Once again, as they have for more than a decade, U.S. fishermen and the Ecuadorian navy are squaring away for their annual squabble...
...potential hideaway that until now has been completely ignored, however, is De Witt Isle, five miles off the southern coast of Tasmania* in the savage, blustery "Roaring Forties." Its assets are 4,000 acres of jagged rocks, tangled undergrowth and trees twisted and bent by the battering winds. Local fishermen call it the "Big Witch," and settlers have avoided it like the plague, but bandicoots (ratlike marsupials native to Australia), wallabies, eagles and penguins think De Witt is just fine...
...furor brought an unwelcome influx of journalists, whom the opportunistic local fishermen charged $280 per round trip from a Tasmanian port. But now the interest has ebbed, and Jane has been left alone to write poems and start work on a book, play the flute and dive for crayfish and abalone to supplement her diet of cereal, canned goods and homegrown vegetables...
...mood began to change: "Damn it, I'm going to conquer this island. I won't let it beat me . . .1 had been feeling so sorry for myself that I was unaware of the beauty that surrounded me." Recently she sent a letter home via the local fishermen, who stop by occasionally to deliver supplies and make certain that Jane is all right. In the letter she wrote: "I feel very old and very young. I'm more determined than ever to stay here." She reports she has learned to bake bread and saw and split firewood...
...environmental controversy. Even if permission to build the pipeline is granted by the Department of the Interior within the next several months, as appears likely, the project stands to be delayed. A series of court injunctions won by such diverse groups as the Wilderness Society, Alaskan Eskimos and local fishermen could put off completion of the line until at least...