Word: salmons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saving Salmon...
Says Larry Snead, a U.S. State Department expert on fisheries: "Worldwide, Atlantic salmon stocks are in trouble...
...fate of Salmo salar is linked to its peculiar life cycle. Like its larger cousin, the Pacific salmon, the Atlantic type hatches in fresh water. The parr, as the young fish are known, stay in their rivers until they reach a length of five to six inches, a process that may take several years. Then the salmon migrate to the sea and make their way to feeding grounds hundreds, even thousands, of miles away. Salmon that have spent several years at sea "run," or return to their native rivers, throughout the spring...
...they survive their far-flung travels, that is. Because the migratory patterns of Atlantic salmon are well known, commercial fishermen can easily catch the fish either at their feeding grounds or as they are about to return to their rivers. With increasing clamor, Scots are blaming the shortage of salmon in Scottish rivers on the perfectly legal, internationally negotiated agreements that allow fishermen from numerous European nations to net salmon in the open North Atlantic...
...private railway car, and from the start in Vancouver the Prime Minister was met at virtually every stop along the way by picketers, protesters and assorted Trudeauphobes, who screamed obscenities and lustily pelted his railway car with eggs and tomatoes. Particularly annoyed by out-of-work demonstrators at Salmon Arm, B.C., Trudeau responded before TV cameras with a monodigital gesture that prompted one observer to note: "Let it never be said that the Prime Minister refused to lift a finger on behalf of the unemployed...