Word: tuna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tuna were running strong. First day's catch of eleven tons brought a posted price of $125 a ton. With clear skies, ideal fishing conditions, the first week's catch totaled 200 tons-twice what it was last season. Last week it was grinding through the tuna canneries...
Fortnight ago the Columbia River Packers Association motor ship Unga put out from Astoria, Ore. to look for albacore tuna. Next day, 40 miles out into the Pacific from Oregon's Cascade Head, the Unga sighted the year's first tuna, touched off a new season for one of Oregon's newest industries...
Though the tuna were running two weeks earlier than ever before, fishers and packers were thankful that they were running at all. For the albacore, which is the U. S.'s finest eating tuna, is a wayward fish. Sometimes mistaken for a porpoise, he was until a few years ago the prize of the California fishers' catch. Then he disappeared from those waters." In 1935 famed stubble-headed Oceanographer Dr. Thomas Gordon Thompson, aboard his floating laboratory Catalyst, spied schools of albacore in the warm, blue waters of the Japanese Current 100 miles off the Oregon-Washington coast...
Many a theory was hatched to explain the albacore's strange migration. Theory or no theory, California fishermen were deserted by the white-meat albacore, left .with the less tasty, dark-meat yellowfin tuna...