Word: hake
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NORMAN H. HAKE Hoyleton...
...screen career to speak of -nothing to compare with Cooper or Gable or Bogart. But Sterling Hayden was a celebrity of sorts in Hollywood. His irresistible appeal was that he was the authentic article. He had gone to sea at 17, dory-trawling for haddock, hake and scrod from ramshackle schooners on the stormy Newfoundland banks. At 22 he was a master mariner. His first command was a brigantine, which he sailed to Tahiti. He spent the war as an OSS officer operating with the partisans in Yugoslavia rather than on the Warner Brothers lot. And periodically, to prove that...
...trouble is that the exploitation has taken place in the known and favored areas, mostly within 100 miles of land, where a concentration of effort has often led to a depletion of valuable fish. The Russians off Cape Cod, for example, are out for herring rather than the hake, haddock and cod that most American fishermen are after-but the other species tend to disappear after the herring, their natural food, becomes scarce. Industrial pollution in such nations as Japan and the U.S. has tended to drive the fish farther from shore and to make worse...