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Japanese "Piracy." The embarrassing fact is that after they leave their spawning grounds upriver from Alaska's Bristol Bay the sockeye swim farther out to sea than anyone imagined When the U.S., Canada and Japan instituted their North Pacific fisheries treaty in 1953, North American negotiators set 175 degrees west longitude as the eastward limit for Japanese fishermen, confident that no Alaska salmon ventured that far west. But Japa nese fishermen found plenty of sockeye outside the boundary, and marine biologists soon learned the truth: in its life cycle, the sockeye swims out around the Aleutian islands for more...
Finally, after two years of gallivanting around, the steelhead comes home to spawn. It even does that the hard way. Salmon spawn in October; rainbow trout lay their eggs in the fall and hibernate sluggishly on the bottom at the first cold snap. But winter-from...
PAUL REYBEROLLE-Marlborough-Gerson, 41 East 57th. The U.S. gets its first good look at a French painter who serves up frogs, couples and countrysides. As if performing a fertility rite in the paint itself, Reyberolle stirs around a mess of goopy green to convey the spume and spawn of swamp life and, with a calculated confusion of limbs, portrays lovers tumbling in a field, successfully suggests the mystery and fecundity of nature. Thirty oils. Through June...
...SPAWN OF EVIL by Paul I. Wellman. 350 pages. Doubleday...
Upon the conquest, the art of Mexico stumbled for a while, then swallowed up the onslaught of Spanish artistry and went on to spawn a new nationalistic and individual tradition. To show the whole sweeping story, the Mexican government prepared an encyclopedic exhibit of more than 2,000 works of art from pre-Columbian times to the present (see next two pages). After five years in Europe, where 9,000,000 people saw it, the show has come to the U.S., and now is on view at the Los Angeles County Museum...