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Among the fabulous projects instigated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, none has been more controversial than the $7,000,000 system of elevators and staircases installed at 170-foot Bonneville Dam for the convenience of fish. Object of the system is to enable Columbia River salmon to pursue their four-year life cycle: hatch in gravel beds in the river's upper tributaries, grow several inches, drift down to the ocean tailfirst, get to weigh anywhere from 10-to 60 lb., swim back up the Columbia River to spawn and die exactly where they started. The system, consists...
Last week, the answer to whether salmon would use their Bonneville facilities finally became known. It was Yes. During April, Bonneville's fish census-takers grew increasingly nervous. Only a small number of salmon went by each day. Last week the fishways looked like a subway in a rush hour. This year's run was smaller than usual but an average of 1,600 salmon a day were using the ladders and there was no indication that fish had difficulty finding their way. Since the number of salmon who used to go up the river to spawn...
...addition to being tense, Cleveland's most wretched citizens were undoubtedly very hungry. One destitute mother of seven children who was expecting an eighth fed her family through neighbors' aid. The menu: breakfast, bread and tea; lunch, spaghetti and bread; dinner, bread and salmon. The children shared a quart of milk. A 76-year-old woman who said she had not had a square meal for six days waited from 5 to 8 a. m., for a relief station to open its doors. Another fainted, was taken to a hospital for treatment, then released. A Mrs. Florence Barindt...
Boats. Since 1935 Alaska's $46,000,000-a-year salmon-fishing industry, which depends on salmon spawned in Alaskan rivers and caught as they return from the sea to the rivers to breed, has yelled bloody murder about Japanese fishermen operating offshore. When the Japanese Government subsidized a three-year "salmon survey" of the Bering Sea in 1935, Alaska fishermen maintained that Japanese boats were trawling with heavy nets in all seasons, would soon exhaust the grounds. Japan retorted variously that she was investigating the possibility of floating canneries, that her nationals were not invading U. S. waters...
...brought the controversy to a head by introducing a resolution boldly forbidding foreign vessels to fish anywhere on Alaska's 100-mile continental shelf. Grumpy Alaskans appeared at committee hearings on the bill to testify that Japanese boats had been observed within the three-mile limit hauling in salmon with four-mile nets, that aviators flying over the Japanese fleet had seen as many as 20,000 salmon piled on the decks of four fishing vessels, that at the present rate Alaska's salmon would not last five years. The State Department, whose agreements with Great Britain...