Word: pikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Bemidji, Minn., Fish Hatchery telephoned long distance to its officials to tell them that Old Silverspot, matriarch of wall-eye pike, was safe at the hatchery. She had been missing for two years. Hatchery men had thought she was dead of old age or had been a fisherman's prize 25-lb. catch. Fish officials hurried to Bemidji, found her swimming in a tub. They took her picture as Minnesota's mother of millions...
...director of the hatcheries distinguished her among wall-eye pike by punching a hole in her tail fin in acknowledgment of her reproductive ability...
...Because of their gold mottlings French Canadians call them dorés (gilded). They are distinguished by their large, flat eyes, are sometimes called glassy-eye pike. They weigh from three to 55 lb., are found mainly in Canadian and North ern U. S. lakes and rivers...
Married. Lammot du Pont, 49, of St. Amour, Kennett Pike, Wilmington, Del., president of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co.; and Mrs. Caroline Hynson Stollenwerck of Scarsdale, N. Y.; in Wilmington. Lammot 3rd, eldest of seven children, was best...
...Fisheries tries to save the Mississippi's stranded fish before the summer sun dries up the pools. Hauling up load after load of suffering fish, the rescuers return them to the main stream of the river or ship them away to stock special preserves. Black bass, pickerel pike, pike perch, white bass, yellow perch, crappies cannot stand crowding, bad water, must be rescued first. Buffalo fish, carp and catfish are toughest...