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...reason for the frenzy was the presence in the lake of a game fish whose natural home is in the coastal waters and streams of the Pacific. Coho salmon were being caught in fresh-water Lake Michigan by the thousands. And every strike was a battle. The silvery coho salmon are 2 ft. long, weigh 15 Ibs. and more. "They're all different," said Ron Jenkins of Battle Creek, Mich., who had caught three in his first half-hour. "Some will jump; some will go deep. They'll all fight." Said a farmer who had been trying...
...whale. After that came a battle off Cape Finisterre that lasted several hours, reported Madrid's daily ABC, and when all the thrashing and splashing were over, Spain's Francisco Franco, 75, had landed himself a 48,000-lb. trophy. Franco's favorite finny prey is salmon, but this was far from his first whale. Over the years he has snagged more than 20 of the leviathans, and he has the pictures to prove it decorating the cabins of his boat...
...weather ought to be a basic precaution; yet the Coast Guard reports that an astonishing number of boaters pay it no heed. One day last fall, the forecast for Lake Michigan called for squalls and 40-m.p.h. winds. Nevertheless, hundreds of fishermen set out in search of coho salmon. When the storm hit, the Coast Guard did all the fishing, hauled 300 anglers and seven dead bodies from the water...
...still relatively unpolluted; massive garbage disposal in it has been halted. It is still, thanks to its tributaries, a major spawning habitat for Pacific salmon, and its mud flats are a vital source of food to many fish and ocean birds. Its waters provide the Bay Area with a natural year-round air-conditioning system. All this would be destroyed if the bay were diminished. The bay's would-be protectors also point out that the nine surrounding counties encompass more than 7,000 square miles, largely undeveloped, and have no real need to expand inwardly into...
...also caused spectacular kills of fish and wildlife. In the Canadian province of New Brunswick, for example, the application of only one-half pound of DDT per acre of forest to control the spruce budworm has twice wiped out almost an entire year's production of young salmon in the Miramichi River. In this process, rain washes the DDT off the ground and into the plankton of lakes and streams. Fish eat the DDT-tainted plankton; the pesticide becomes concentrated in their bodies, and the original dose ultimately reaches multifold strength in fish-eating birds, which then often...