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...very far into the Great Lakes until the 1930s, when rebuilding of the Welland Canal provided it with a convenient bypass around Niagara Falls. Even so, their numbers remained relatively small until the 1950s, when the sea lamprey-also an oceanic interloper-wiped the Great Lakes clean of the trout and burbot that were feeding on alewives. Too small a target for the lamprey (which is now being eliminated by chemical controls), and left with no natural enemies, the alewives promptly began a population explosion...
Commercial fishermen now take about 50 million Ibs. of the plentiful alewives from Lake Michigan each year, for processing into fish meal, fish oil, and cat and chicken food. Worried fed eral and state agents have stocked the lake with 2,000,000 steelhead trout and 300,000 coho salmon, hoping that they will take to an alewife diet and proliferate, thus bringing the ecology of the lake back into balance...
...trout, salmon and fishermen have their jobs cut out for them. Despite the deaths of hundreds of millions of ale wives in the current die-off, there are still an estimated 175 billion in Lake Michigan alone...
...relaxations: his penthouse apartment on Manhattan's East Side is decorated with paintings and drawings by Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh and Vlaminck, and his twelve-room home in suburban Connecticut-built around a converted, 100-year-old schoolhouse-has a fresh-water pond containing a private stock of trout...
SPORTSMAN'S HOLIDAY (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). Trout fishing in Chile and Argentina, surf casting for striped bass on Cape Cod, and hunting game birds in New York State. Curt Gowdy narrates. Premi...