Word: fishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...destroyer after locating the submarine under water by hydrophones, "Nash Fish" "Ryan Porpoise" or any one of the several fine instruments developed during the later months of the War, drops several depth bombs (much less powerful in submarine warfare than publicity led people to believe) finally with definite knowledge that the sub is still intact the paravane is streamed. The destroyer works up to speed (about four to five times the possible speed of a submarine under water) circles the area, crosses it several times, makes a shamrock course within the circle thus covering completely the whole area while...
Iceland, as extensive as Ohio, as populous as Schenectady, has its own Parliament (Althing),* its own Premier, its own Lutheran Bishop. Fifty flourishing savings banks, universal old age pensions and the University of Reykjavik attest the prosperity of Icelanders who export 58,000,000 kroner worth of fish, horses, sheep, hides, oils, tallow, and expend only 50,000,000 kroner annually on imports...
Last week the New Bedford (Mass.) Standard had the honor of publishing a scientific story of considerable interest and special appropriateness for that oldtime fishing centre. Mrs. Marie Poland Fish, biologist of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries station at Woods Hole, Mass., in working over specimens and data brought back by her husband, Dr. Charles J. Fish, from his trip last year to the Sargasso Sea, Galapagos and the prehistoric gorge of the Hudson River, had identified certain fish eggs dredged from the Challenger Bank near Bermuda as eggs of the common American eel. Science had never seen such...
...spring. Before spawning, matured eels fast for months, their ultimate death re sulting from starvation. The small eels that return by the myriad are at least a year old, having developed out of a larval stage which Science long took to be a distinct species of surface-dwelling fish, leptocephali, notable for their complete lack of reproductive organs. The presence of eels in waters blocked from the sea by high falls, and in land-locked ponds and lakes, is readily accounted for by the eel's ability to live a long time out of water, to travel considerable distances...
Last week the scientific world heard of a noise that was literally "killing." Inaudible to human ears, it consisted of extremely short, rapid sound waves produced from electrically driven quartz crystals. Similar waves had been used in submarine detection, during the War, when it was noticed that fish in the experimental tanks were occasionally killed. Subsequent experiment had shown that stagnant water could be freed from microorganisms; that small fish died in convulsions after "hearing" the quartz waves; that the blood count of a swimming mouse was reduced one half after 20 minutes' exposure. Possible significance: swift purification...