Word: salmon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Over the past six years, the fleet of 300-ft. Soviet trawlers plying their waters has grown to 17 vessels, and none of the American fishermen's protests to Washington produced any results. The Soviets, they say, are fishing inside the U.S. twelve-mile limit and depleting the salmon grounds by using small-mesh nets, forbidden to the Californians. So the men took things into their own hands. They formed a vigilante group called American Waters for American Fishermen. By last week they had collected a fund of $6,314 to use for bounties to anyone who catches...
...slanting shaft that illuminates only the highest peaks. Each day the light descends, until finally even the deepest valley is bathed in warmth. The ice breaks, roaring like cannon fire, and the ground explodes with color as wild flowers bloom. Big bears stagger out of hibernation. Rivers teem with salmon, grayling and char. Caribou march in long single files toward new feeding grounds. Glacial ice glitters like emeralds and sapphires. The world seems reborn...
...changed their tune when reports of gold filtered south from Nome and Fairbanks at the turn of the century. Some prospectors came with a pack and left with a bundle. The 1916 copper rush in Cordova was equally ruthless. The mines closed 20 years later, depleted. Only the fish?salmon, herring and halibut?kept the local economy going...
Before the advent of the snow machine, Joe used dog teams. But they were a problem. You had to feed them. Prior to statehood, which brought tight restrictions on fishing, Delia and a partner fed their dogs on salmon fished from the Skwentna River and Eight-Mile Creek. "We used to put fish nets in the rivers and cricks and get maybe 2,500 to 4,500 salmon, just to feed our teams. But then the state fish and game people stopped us from usin' the fish wheel. Then they stopped us from usin' nets, and then they...
...efforts saved the grizzly bear, the bison and African cheetah. On Grand Cayman island in the Caribbean, a new "turtle farm" is now hatching the first of thousands of eggs. This will help prevent the turtles' rapid depletion by the cosmetics industry. In the Pacific Northwest, the sockeye salmon is proliferating, thanks to artificial incubation and man-made channels that allow the fish to bypass barriers on their way upriver to spawning lakes. Conservationists are also bringing back the takahe, a large New Zealand bird that resembles the extinct dodo, and the vicuña, a llamalike Peruvian animal...