Word: inhabit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Currents for Tuna. Main target was tuna, a surface fish that is usually found far from land and therefore is not claimed as the property of any nation. Japanese scientists found that the different species of tuna inhabit different ocean currents. So the bureau's ships started at known tuna-fishing grounds and followed the currents. At intervals they fed out buoyed lines. Usually they caught little or nothing; most of the vast ocean is poor in fish. Then, suddenly, the water would come alive with tuna. Hungry Japan acquired another source of food...