Word: mackerels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seiner Angle and Florence, out of Gloucester, Mass., was about to bag a school of mackerel. The boat towed the net, buoyed and weighted, around the milling fish. Next step was to close the "purse" and haul the mackerel aboard...
West Pubnico has prospered during the war. In season the hardy Pubniconian men go after lobster, herring, mackerel and tuna. Winters they repair their nets, tend their cows and chickens, live off their home-grown vegetables and the fish they salted away, and generally take life easy in their tidy, white-frame homes which are clustered about Father Leblanc's St. Peter's Church...
Sardines & Saccharine. In Ibaraki prefecture, 21 boats returned to mackerel fishing. The U.S. Fifth Fleet was politely asked to move elsewhere in Tokyo Bay, since its anchorage barred the way to the best sardine fishing grounds...
...Mackerel Note...
...mackerel cannot see or touch itself, thus has no idea what sort of creature it is" [TIME, June 4]. But if you'd ever swum around in a school of mackerel the way I have, taking notes, you'd know that each mackerel looks at the thousands of others and figures that he's pretty much like all his neighbors...