Word: herringer
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...Hague," Zoologist Johann D. F. Hardenberg of the Ministry of Agriculture's fauna department. Called in by the Air Force and Amsterdam's airport, Hardenberg's first move was to import an American invention, a loudspeaker playing the tape-recorded distress calls of American herring gulls. It was an imaginative effort, but it did not work. Dutch herring gulls apparently speak a dialect all their own and are not alarmed by the screams of their American cousins. When Dr. Hardenberg recorded distressed Dutch gulls and a Jeep carrying his loudspeaker patrolled the runway of Leeuwarden military...
...Florida last week, so many fishermen were chasing bonefish that some guides were booked solid, seven days a week clear up to April-at $50 a crack. Yet a less spectacular target for such frenzied attack could hardly be imagined. The bonefish looks a little like a herring; in fact, it is a kind of herring-long, scaly cigar-shaped body and all. It does not pursue its food like a proper game fish but grubs around the shallows, gulping down evil-smelling worms and other tidbits. People who have sampled its flesh discreetly describe it as "gamy," and even...
...race. Throughout the world, the fishing industry not only supports thousands of fishermen-who lead probably the roughest and most ill-paid lives of any workers-but countless satellite industries. From Madagascar to Greenland, the catch of the sea, ranging from the lordly tuna through the pedestrian cod and herring to the rarer but often treasured whale and shark, is industriously smoked, fried, salted, baked, dried, roasted, stewed, pickled, casseroled or even eaten half-rotten (as in Iceland) or quite raw (as in Japan...
...shooing them away from the Faeroe Islands. Norway is chasing Swedish fishermen from grounds that the Swedes have fished for hundreds of years. Japanese boats are barred from South Korea, badgered by the Russians in the North Pacific. Irish corvettes have scattered Dutchmen and Belgians from Ireland's herring grounds, and Canada last year ordered a Russian fleet out of the Bay of Fundy. Even the conference table can become chilly; last week in Tokyo, Japanese, U.S. and Canadian delegates labored through the fifth week of a conference stalemated by a U.S.Canadian refusal to let Japanese fishermen fish...
...being fully exploited. The 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...