Word: mackerel
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...Crimson dropped anchor in a teeming school of off-shore mackerel in the afternoon. "It was incredible," says Zewinski. "We were pulling in six mackerel at a time just as fast as we could drop the lines in." Zewinski and company used deep sea rods, equipped with phosphorescent lures attached to the six hooks on each line...
...Harvard boat was crammed with 359 lbs. of mackerel. This was good, but not good enough, for the Lock Haven boat had espied the school before anyone else and had thus been able to catch a whopping 1,502 lbs. of fish in the first...
...blowout had been costly. All told, more than 20,000 tons of oil had spilled into the sea, threatening the fragile spawning grounds of herring, mackerel and other species that provide rich catches for fishermen in the area. During the capping operation, the entire Ekofisk complex, which normally produces 40,000 tons of oil a day, was shut down, costing both Phillips and the Norwegian government a bundle in lost revenues and taxes. Both the Norwegian and British governments have been hoping to expand drilling activities in the North Sea sectors under their control. Now that the inevitable accident...
...week. Since then, huge fleets of modern trawlers from foreign countries, most notably the Soviet Union, Japan, Poland and East Germany, have swept the prime U.S. fishing grounds off New England, the Pacific Northwest and Alaska almost clean of Atlantic cod, yellowtail flounder and haddock; stocks of hake, herring, mackerel and pollack were severely depleted...
According to The Crimson, Suze's words on first hearing of the three black students' charges were: "Holy Mackerel." I say that's putting it mildly. Of all the teachers to have singled...