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...first interview, the poet greeted him with a cool and quizzical hello. But that first interview lasted until 4 o'clock in the morning, beginning in the living room-study of the poet's two-room flat, and going on in the kitchen over caviar, salmon, cheese and red Georgian wine...
...years ago, standing hip-deep in the swollen waters of an Irish river, a pair of ardent fishermen uncharacteristically sandwiched a bit of business talk in between their casts. Their catch: three salmon and an idea that seems likely to result in the biggest Italian economic invasion of Britain since the days of the Lombard bankers...
...Salmon are harder to breed than Donaldson's trout. Instead of spending all their lives in fresh water, where they can be fattened like hogs, ocean salmon come to fresh-water streams only to lay their eggs. When the fingerlings are three inches long, they take off for the sea, where they get most of their growth. They come home to deposit their eggs and sperm with unerring accuracy in the stream where they were hatched...
Donaldson began his salmon improvement program in 1948 with fertilized eggs from chinook salmon that run up Soos Creek, well south of Seattle. He hatched the eggs in tanks on the campus and nursed the infant salmon until they grew into fingerlings. Then he washed them down a sluice into Lake Union, and they swam out into the Pacific. After four years, the college-bred salmon returned to the campus full grown, like old grads gathering for a class reunion...
Hereditary Vigor. Each succeeding year Donaldson has graduated groups of fingerling salmon, identifying their class by clipping their belly fins. In 1955 came a startling break; 48 of the fingerlings released in 1952 came back from the ocean full grown. This was revolutionary; chinook salmon normally take four years to reach maturity. Donaldson selected spawn from the best of the 48, nursed the hatchlings into fingerlings and launched them into the sea. The fast-growing trait proved permanent; in 1958 a startling proportion of the class of '55 returned full grown to the hatchery. They were...