Word: halibut
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...Gaspe the fishing boats still put out from the coves for cod and halibut. Tourists could also put out from the little bays for a day of deep-sea fishing for swordfish and tuna. Perce Rock still stood, angular and orange, out of the blue water. The thousands of birds still nested on Bonaventure Island...
Next day Franklin Roosevelt weighed anchor. As his ship headed north and west into the North Pacific fogs, the President cast a line overboard. His catch: one halibut, one flounder. At Adak, an as-yet-uncompleted base in the Andreanof Islands, Franklin Roosevelt went ashore, amid fog and mud, for a six-hour stay...
California Packing Corp., Washington Laboratories, Halibut Liver Oil Producers and vitamin-conscious Borden Co. have become big buyers and processors of shark livers. Borden shark-fishing boats are busy off the West Coast of North America and as far south as Chile. Early in April Borden moved into the Gulf, through its purchase of Shark Fisheries, Inc. and Shark Industries, Inc., including a small vitamin-processing plant at Salerno, Fla. This plant will become its base for a vast shark-fishing operation in the Caribbean. If necessary to meet the U.S. demand for 149 trillion U.S.P. units of vitamin...
...trout-ticklers"). Back in 1917, Pete Sellen decided that salmon eggs, which were thrown away by fishermen, had their use. After experimenting with more than 400 solutions, he evolved a secret process of dyeing and preserving them. His brother, who had netted $16,000 cutting the cheeks off waste halibut heads and selling them for 10? apiece, financed him. The industry grew by a simple process. Employes of Sellen and another pioneer, Seattle's Neptune Fish Products Co. (Bonn's salmon eggs), learned the processing secret, then quit to go into business for themselves. When this happened, Pete...
...Japs had expected a long stay on Attu. Their food supplies were ample: shrimp and crab meat and bamboo shoots, spices and soy sauce and dried black seaweed for flavoring rice. They varied this diet by catching salmon and halibut, shooting Emperor geese and Yukon River ducks. They had hundreds of gallons of sake...