Word: squids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after Sportsman Williams' catch, another blue marlin, a monster, was feeling warm enough to strike at a fresh squid trolled by Sportsman Julian Carr Stanley, fishing with Captain Herman Jacobsen on the launch Mongoose. The fish ripped the line from its outrigger clip on his first rush, then took the hook solidly when...
...speed of travel, and whether she is, as various eyewitnesses and scientists have declared: 1) an elephant seal which swam in from the North Sea via the Caledonian Canal; 2) a hippopotamus; 3) a 50-ft. prehistoric reptile with a whiskery pinhead and eight scaly humps; 4) a giant squid; 5) "an abomination with a three-arched neck"; 6) a cold-blooded crocodile; 7) a cool fabrication...
...Soon it became unprofitable to hunt them and by the turn of the century they were on the increase again. Fishermen claimed that they ate great quantities of salmon and damaged many nets. Zoologists doubted this. One professor opened a number of sea lion stomachs, found nothing but squid. Fishermen were in the saddle, however, and forced the Fish & Game Commission to start slaughtering. In 1909 some measure of protection was provided, but sporadic killing continued, many animals were taken for zoos and circuses, and hundreds of bulls were slaughtered every year for their genitalia from which Chinese manufacturers make...
There is no doubt that sea lions eat a few salmon, damage a few nets. But the California Fish & Game Commission now believes that they do much more good than harm because they eat valueless and destructive fish such as morays, squid, octopi, dogfish, deepwater crabs. The Commission also believes that there are enough natural checks to keep sea lions from, increasing too fast. It takes six weeks for the pups to learn to swim, and many are drowned before they learn. Others are trampled to death by careless parents. Killer whales and sharks eat sea lions young...
...m.p.h. up & down the lake, prudently keeping at least 100 yd. from shore. On the east shore, a large pudgy "footprint" was found. Scientists entering the discussion opined that it was: 1) an elephant seal that had slipped through the Caledonian Canal from the North Sea; 2) a giant squid; 3) a hippopotamus; 4) an acclimatized crocodile; 5) floating debris from a Wartime German blimp...