Word: salmons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...several years America's winningest thoroughbred trainer, Hirsch Jacobs, has selected a few horses from his vast stable to run under the salmon pink and green colors of his pretty daughter Patrice, 23. Last winter the Marymount Junior College alumna was given her first chance to pick her own yearling, and after weeks of study, she chose Hail to Reason-which this summer emerged as the nation's top two-year-old. But last week in an early-morning workout at Aqueduct, the horse that Patrice felt had "developed the nicest personality I've seen...
...Alaskan salmon life span is four to five years. Fish are hatched in fresh-water streams, spend two years there, then migrate .to open waters of the North Pacific, where they feed and grow. After swimming some 6,000 miles, they return to exact spot of birth...
Heartening Prediction. For Alaska fishermen, who had been hard hit by steadily diminishing runs in recent years, it was almost too good to be true. Some had glumly believed that intensive Japanese deep-sea fishing had ruined the Alaskan salmon runs for good. Others had taken heart from the forecast of a good run by Dr. William F. Royce. director of the University of Washington's Fisheries Research Institute. Royce keeps tab on the number of young salmon moving down the rivers and into the sea and watches the results of test catches throughout the northeast Pacific. Historically, Bristol...
...Royce predicted, the rush came. At first fishermen were limited by state conservation regulations to fishing only one day a week. Then, as the number of salmon grew, the limits were dropped for fear the spawning grounds might become too crowded. Because the fishermen were prepared with extra help, they hauled in salmon until the canneries could not process any more. In all, some 40 million salmon coursed through Bristol Bay, bound for the clear headwaters of the Kvichak, Nushagak and Ugashik rivers to spawn and die. Nearly 15 million were caught...
Boosting the Economy. The salmon had come back for the very reasons cited by Dr. Royce. In addition to a cyclical increase, a big factor was a cut in Japanese deep-sea fishing, which used to decimate the salmon runs before they reached Alaska. Last May the Russians offered to let the Japanese, excluded from their traditional fishing grounds since 1945, return to some of their old areas, if they would restrict their catches. The Japanese agreed. The big 1960 run will greatly help the troubled Alaskan economy. Experts expect this season's catch to be worth $67 million...