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SPORTSMAN'S HOLIDAY (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). The fishiest of stories: salmon in New Brunswick, Canada; sawfish in Central America's Lake Nicaragua; ice fishing in New York State...
August 5, 1830. Having done all my usual 'duties at the office, I thought I would go down to see how the pictures by Salmon would sell. They are all of them very pretty, but I held in exceedingly well until the close, when one came up which I could not resist, and immediately repented...
...hammer had al ready fallen, and the painting was delivered in due time to its new owner. "I was confirmed of my opinion of its merit," noted the crusty diarist judiciously on Sept. 24. Posterity agrees with his evaluation. In the 1830s, a maritime scene by Robert Salmon (see color) brought around $30 apiece. Today, Salmons sell for between $10,000 and $15,000. A recent exhibit of 93 canvases at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass., organized with the help of Dartmouth Art Historian John Wilmerding, drew some 8,000 visitors, and resulted in the rediscovery of 30 Salmons...
Commercial fishermen now take about 50 million Ibs. of the plentiful alewives from Lake Michigan each year, for processing into fish meal, fish oil, and cat and chicken food. Worried fed eral and state agents have stocked the lake with 2,000,000 steelhead trout and 300,000 coho salmon, hoping that they will take to an alewife diet and proliferate, thus bringing the ecology of the lake back into balance...
...trout, salmon and fishermen have their jobs cut out for them. Despite the deaths of hundreds of millions of ale wives in the current die-off, there are still an estimated 175 billion in Lake Michigan alone...