Word: mackerels
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...held by William Beebe, who dangled on a cable 3,028 feet below the ocean's surface in a hollow steel "bathysphere." Professor Piccard plans a bolder approach. His bathyvessel, which he began designing before the war, will be a true submarine, as free-swimming as a mackerel. His goal, he told newsmen last week, is 4,000 meters, nearly 2½ miles below the surface. The Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research will sponsor the big dive...
...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...
...sharks had been deeply offended. A boat had towed two cloth bags full of the Navy's new shark repellent all around the net. The concoction's smell was so revolting to the sharks that they lost interest in the mackerel...
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...