Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pair of charter-boat skippers roared out and carved up the long lines with their boat propellers. These lines were in fact pulled up and cut with knives-and anything else handy-aboard considerably more than two boats. In the light of what long lining will do to sport fishing, I would consider it unwise for anyone to set one within the operating range of our fleet. MITCH MIORANA Ocean City...
...deejay. Dick Summer, who loves rock 'n' roll unabashedly and for the same reasons his listeners do, is probably one of the most low-key people in the business. Summer looks the part more than Bradley does. He came into the studio after 10, dressed in a sweater and sport shirt, carrying 'a stack of 45's from his own collection. He is 30, dark and stocky, with a low, Brooklyn-accented voice in marked contrast to the General American diction of most people in broadcasting...
...hours or more, supported by buoys and equipped with radar beacons to spot their location for the boat. Fish hooked on the long lines fight hopelessly against the miles-long cable until they drown or are mutilated by sharks. Off Baja California one day last spring, enraged Mexican sport fishermen counted more than 300 sailfish on the 2,000 hooks of a single long line. The line was only one of five laid by a Japanese boat that fished the area for 14 days. Total estimated catch: 21,000 sailfish...
...Sport fishermen around the world have been bombarding government agencies with complaints about the commercial long liners. Now, tired of waiting, the protesters are taking matters into their own hands...
...Jamaica last summer, sport fishermen blasted away at a long liner's glass floats with rifles. In Acapulco, only the timely arrival of a Mexican coast-guard boat averted a shooting match between charter-boat vigilantes and a Japanese long liner armed with a machine gun. And last July, when a flotilla of Norwegian long liners steamed into Maryland's Jack Spot, a pair of charter-boat skippers roared out and carved up the long lines with their boats' propellers...