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...slow as a stunned mullet. They say (well, they hope) the Yanks are going to watch it in their millions. Which just shows there's probably no limit to the number of poor suffering drongos who'll sit back and have the Box come the raw prawn on them...
...benefits of Toyo Kogyo's new prosperity. Last week union members got a 6.9% pay hike. Says Masao Isoda, a 28-year-old foreman: "In the bad old days, I could afford only noodle soup for lunch. Now I allow myself the luxury of a fat, fried prawn with my soup...
...sweetest pleasures is savoring the dying wriggle of a freshly peeled live shrimp on the tongue. Cooked or raw, the shrimp has for centuries occupied a place of honor in Japan's pantheon of epicurean ecstasies. Lately, however, that wriggly national hero has become a mere prawn in the hands of Japanese commercial interests. Because of huge Japanese demand, shrimp prices round the world are jumping...
Brutal Female. Before his experiments began to pay off. Dr. Fujinaga had to go back to the beginning-he had to pry into the prawns' most intimate secrets. For reasons known only to themselves, the little creatures mate only between midnight and 3 a.m. on perfect summer nights in calm, untroubled water. Night after night Dr. Fujinaga waded hip-deep in his experimental saltwater pond, wielding only a flashlight. Not until 1940 did he see the first prawn mating ever witnessed by man. "The ritual is truly bewitching," he reported. "The male prawn first chases the female; then...
Plankton & Clam Larvae. In 1959, modestly financed by fisheries companies, Dr. Fujinaga set up a pilot prawn ranch in abandoned salt-evaporation ponds at Iku-shima on Shikoku Island. He now has 30 employees, and the place is jumping with prawns. The tiny just-hatched kurumas are coddled in indoor tanks and eat yellowish-brown Skeletonema plankton that have been grown in filtered sea water doped with chemicals. Other kinds of plankton, also specially cultured, carry them through the next stage. When they are one-quarter-inch long, they graduate to outdoor tanks and are fed clam eggs and larvae...