Word: sunfish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chemicals that might do the trick. In the last 2½years, the Hammond Bay Fishery Laboratory near Rogers City, Mich, has tested more than 5,000 of them. Out of this laborious screening has come a single compound that kills infant lampreys without hurting rainbow trout or bluegill sunfish. It is now being tested on other fish, and if it still looks good, next summer when the streams are low it will get a full-scale test...
...such other Athenians as Oilman Ike La Rue and Lease Broker George Greer loaf around simple cabins in sports shirts or old clothes, play gin rummy for 1? a point, kid each other about their waistlines, and fish for bream (pronounced "brim" in Texas, and a member of the sunfish family). With guides to bait the hooks and take off the fish, it is perhaps the most relaxing form of fishing in the world; Murchison likes it because it gives him time to think...