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Frenchmen call it saumon blanc and eat it with gusto. To the British, it is the fish in their beloved fish 'n' chips. On the U.S.'s West Coast, however, it goes by the unappetizing name of hake, and what little of it fishermen have caught has been ground into fish meal for poultry feed...
Soon West Coast fishermen are going to be raising much more hake. Sonar soundings conducted by the Interior Department's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries have detected vast schools of hake in the usually unfished mid-waters between the ocean surface and the bottom...
...midwaters between the surface and the bottom, a region usually neglected by commercial fishermen, swarm with great schools of hake. Often the giant net has caught them at the rate of a ton a minute. Pacific hake bring a low price because they are used to make fish meal, but the net has also caught ocean perch and other food fish. The bureau is looking forward to a time when fleets of supernets will comb the neglected mid-waters of the North Pacific, gulping shiploads of fish that are now almost untroubled by fishermen...
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...