Word: mackerel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Santa Barbara Channel, where the leak occurred, has been one of the best of California's fishing grounds, yielding 27 million Ibs. of fish, including mackerel, anchovies and bonita, in 1967. Since the spill, the Fisherman's Cooperative Association of San Pedro has not taken a fish out of the channel. "We haven't even seen one," says General Manager Tony Pisano. Lobster and crab fishermen retrieving their pots from the channel found their catch alive, but completely covered with...
...fried salted mackerel spine...
...angler simply spotting a broadbill on any given day are 10 to 1. Even then the odds against hooking the fish are 15 to 1. Swordfish have to be coddled into taking a bait; with a full stomach only the most dessert-happy sword can be tempted by mackerel or squid. Fishermen have been known to make ten or more passes before a lazing giant without achieving so much as a blink from those cold blue eyes. On the wildly illogical assumption that he does swallow the bait, the battle is generally lost then and there; the only soft part...
...Private Ear-The Public Eye, a 1963 Broadway hit by Britain's Peter Shaffer, The Pad is laid out as a parable of friendship. Ted (James Farentino), who considers himself God's gift to the working girl, is a crude dude with a smile like a moonlit mackerel and a little black book that would choke a billy-goat. Bob (Brian Bedford), on the other hand, is one of the pure to whom all things are pure, a dear young fuddy-duddy who works as an errand boy in a freight company, lives in a furnished garret...
...missionary in Kerala, India for 17 years, I disagree that "the vast majority" of the catch of shrimp, lobster, mackerel and sardines is sold for export, and that Keralans "largely ignore the sweet potatoes, bananas, pineapples and coconuts that abound" in the state [Feb. 25]. Fish and shrimp are part of the regular diet of millions of people, and the other items mentioned are eaten daily. Unfortunately, the prices of such commodities have risen tremendously recently...