Word: swordfishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miami, the bold pursue giant swordfish by night...
There are honorable reasons for shark to make it to the menu. The firm white meat resembles swordfish but is slightly more chewy, and has a scallop-like texture. Easy to clean and butcher, it is almost oil-free (sharks store all their fat in their liver), is rich in vitamins and minerals and contains almost as much protein as canned tuna. Shark is a highly esteemed food in the Mediterranean, the West Indies, the Orient (indeed, delicately flavored shark's fin soup is a standard dish in U.S. Chinese restaurants) and Latin America, where savory dried and smoked...
...salmon and other varieties that breed in fresh water and spend most of their adult lives in the open seas); they would have first rights to harvest these species and would be allowed to license foreigners to take the rest. Management of wide-ranging oceanic species such as tuna, swordfish and whales would be left to existing (and not always effective) international fishing commissions...
When a New York chemistry professor announced that he had found mercury in canned tuna last December, the Food and Drug Administration began removing thousands of cans from grocery shelves for testing. Most of the tuna was subsequently pronounced safe for human consumption. Not so for swordfish. Last week FDA Chief Charles Edwards warned the public that 95% of all samples of swordfish tested were contaminated with mercury. Only 5% of 853 samples contained mercury below the .5 parts per million safety limit set by the FDA. The average level was twice that. Therefore, said Dr. Edwards...
...reinforce a vague feeling that life is slipping out of control. Take mercury, a poison that can destroy brain and nerve cells. Last spring dangerous concentrations of the metal were found in fish from the Great Lakes region. By year's end, mercury had also turned up in tuna, swordfish and Arctic seals. Suddenly it seemed clear that the poison, an industrial waste, had tainted the oceans to an alarming if still unknown degree...