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Main difference is that this year's oyster haul is estimated at only 15,000,000 bushels, 20% below last year and the smallest in 21 years. One reason: an oyster takes four to five years to reach full maturity, but because of starfish, drills, other oyster hazards the 1939 baby crop (ticketed for 1942 plates and palates) was below par. But they will taste as good as ever, thanks to drenching August rains which washed larger amounts of minerals from the land onto oyster beds...
Their itinerary lay down a thousand miles of Lower California coast, around Cape San Lucas and up into the gulf of treacherous repute. They collected fish, snails, crabs, sea worms, sea cucumbers, sea cradles, sea urchins, sea hares, starfish, octopi, mussels, anemones, shrimps, limpets, conches, sponges, hundreds of other creatures with fancy Latin names. Although they were not looking for rarities, about 10% of their 550 species proved to be new. They were stung by urchins, morays, anemones, stingrays and stinging worms. Their hands, cut by barnacles, became first a welter of sores and then horny-callused. They caught...
...which become increasingly complex." And when he speaks of eggs Hoadley is referring to the lower vertebrates and the invertebrates--not mammals. "Why," for instance, he challenges, "when many different kinds of eggs and sperms are all present in the same sea, do the sperms of one species of starfish happen to find and fertilize the eggs of that species...
...when the earth's coal and oil deposits were formed, there prospered a hard-shelled order of protozoa, the Foraminifera, which were sometimes two inches but usually less than a millimeter across. Micropaleontologists watch for these and do not overlook the fragmentary remains of such creatures as worms, starfish, sea urchins, etc. When oilmen strike a wildcat gusher, they sometimes spend from $1,000 to $2,500 for an analysis of the microfossils which characterize it, so that finding another such well will depend less on luck...
Their undulations take place on the three ornate sets devised by begoggled Cedric Gibbons. Best of them is the Trinidad set: a forest of 150-foot bamboo trees clustered with tufted satin starfish and giant seashells...