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...King Kong) and Italian Actress Silvana Magnano (Bitter Rice, Barabbas) and himself the producer of the 1978 film King of the Gypsies; of injuries received in the mid-air collision of two light planes while he was shooting a documentary on Alaska's annual fish harvest; over Kvichak Bay, Alaska...
...controversy continued, more than 200 Japanese catcher boats busily worked on the permissible side of the 175th degree of longitude. On the coast, U.S. fishermen waited anxiously to see how many sockeye would survive the journey back toward their Alaskan spawning grounds in such rivers as the Nushagak, Kvichak, Naknek, Egegik and Ugashik...
...limits were dropped for fear the spawning grounds might become too crowded. Because the fishermen were prepared with extra help, they hauled in salmon until the canneries could not process any more. In all, some 40 million salmon coursed through Bristol Bay, bound for the clear headwaters of the Kvichak, Nushagak and Ugashik rivers to spawn and die. Nearly 15 million were caught...
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