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...nearly 500,000 anglers who make it one of the U.S.'s fastest-growing sports, casting for trout in unspoiled waters is more than a skill or a discipline. It is a religion...
...fishing for trout is an undemocratic sport. It takes intelligence and skill to learn, a healthy income to afford and plenty of free time to practice. Though bait fishermen scoff that snobs use flies as an excuse to keep worm and minnow goo off their hands, fly-fishermen approach the sport with an almost mystical reverence. Perhaps that's because learning to catch trout is a complex process bordering on religion. Yet it is one of the fastest-growing sports in the U.S., now embraced by nearly 500,000 fisherpeople...
...addition to enraging environmentalists, the drift netters have drawn protests from commercial fishermen around the world. Americans and Soviets complain that the nets kill large numbers of sea trout and salmon, a charge the Japanese deny. Australia and New Zealand, concerned that Japanese and other Asian fishermen were catching too many albacore tuna in the South Pacific, recently outlawed drift nets within 200 miles of their shores. The two countries have offered the services of their navies to smaller Pacific nations that support...
February 3: Freshman Monroe Trout's 21 points and 12 rebounds spark the men's basketball team to a 107-94 thrashing of Yale. The win marks the first time the cagers have ever been in first place in the Ivy League, raising the squad's league record...
...particular concern to the U.S. and Canada is the damage inflicted by the nets on North Pacific stocks of sea trout and salmon. U.S. fishing-industry representatives claim that some Asian fishermen have been pulling large numbers of salmon out of nets intended for squid. As a result, they say, fewer young fish return to North American spawning streams...