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...built in 1937, the great Chinook salmon, far & away the handsomest and most valuable fish in North America, has been fighting a game but losing battle for survival. As every schoolboy knows, the salmon lives under a mysterious compulsion: it must go back to its birthplace to spawn. The spawning grounds of the seagoing Chinook, which once supplied a tasty 17,000 tons a year to U.S. tables, are in the Columbia River's cool, green tributaries far up in the northwest mountains...
...Green Bay, off northern Michigan, where smelts grew thickest, fishermen caught them through holes in the ice in winter, dipped them out of streams with nets when they swam upstream to spawn in spring. A terrific breeder (the female casts more than 20,000 eggs), the smelt fed on insect larvae, other fish and sometimes its own young. Green Bay fishermen began to notice something wrong last winter, when dead smelts popped up through their fishing holes in the ice. By spring great shoals of dead fish were being washed ashore and the lake bottoms were carpeted with them...
...fish are spawned in fresh water, head to sea in their second spring. Grown sometimes to 15 lb., they return to spawn in their fourth winter. Ideal fishing areas are shallow stretches of slow-moving water, where the bait drifts slowly over sandy bottoms. Best fishing is in freezing weather...
...waters, which are the biggest single source of fresh-water fish in America. This year, despite the manpower shortage and a run almost two weeks late in starting, lake fishermen hope to lift 17 to 19 million Ib. from the shallow inshore waters where the herring come in to spawn. Such a catch, well under 1940's 22,480,000 Ib., would be worth more than $600,000 these days, well over...
Tomorrow and Tomorrow. ... In Marion, Ohio. Jesse W. Spawn was hit by a car, seriously injured for the 13th time, made his 28th trip to the hospital in 23 years...