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Fishing in rural lakes is usually a contemplative pastime, but the black-bass tournament on Alabama's Lake Guntersville earlier this month seemed more like the Indy 500. Some 320 anglers set out in their boats at 5 a.m., battling the morning chill and 3-ft. waves in pursuit of...
The contest is part of an even bigger bonanza for B.A.S.S. Inc., a Montgomery, Ala.-based company that stages the professional bass-fishing tour and dominates this arcane but fast-growing sport (estimated total U.S. bass anglers: 26 million). B.A.S.S. sets the tournament rules, controls lucrative - sponsorships, handles the marketing...
B.A.S.S. is the creation of Ray Scott, 56, a former insurance salesman who in 1967 sensed the weekend angler's craving for tips on outwitting the combative black bass, which are actually green. The biggest ones are referred to by aficionados as lunkers. Says Scott, a fishing pal of Bush...
Of particular concern to the U.S. and Canada is the damage inflicted by the nets on North Pacific stocks of sea trout and salmon. U.S. fishing-industry representatives claim that some Asian fishermen have been pulling large numbers of salmon out of nets intended for squid. As a result, they...
A 1987 U.S. law called for international cooperation in monitoring catches on the open seas and enforcing fishing constraints. The U.S. and Japan later reached an agreement under which 32 U.S. observers would go aboard 460 Japanese squid-catching vessels to determine their fishing locations and count the number of...