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Currents for Tuna. Main target was tuna, a surface fish that is usually found far from land and therefore is not claimed as the property of any nation. Japanese scientists found that the different species of tuna inhabit different ocean currents. So the bureau's ships started at known tuna-fishing grounds and followed the currents. At intervals they fed out buoyed lines. Usually they caught little or nothing; most of the vast ocean is poor in fish. Then, suddenly, the water would come alive with tuna. Hungry Japan acquired another source of food...
...Nine new tuna grounds have been found so far, including one in the Atlantic west of the Canary Islands. Japanese fishermen that work that remote area figure they will be away from home for at least six months at a time. Since the ocean currents often shift (carrying the tuna with them), the board's survey ships keep constant vigil, reporting their findings to the fishing boats lest they travel 10,000 miles only to find no fish...
...tuna fishing ground most recently denied them: the Russian rocket target area southwest of Hawaii...
...investigating an electronic method in which fish are attracted by electrical impulse. Discovered by a German scientist named Kreutzer, to whom Enderlin has written for advice, the system utilizes the finding that fish emit and are attracted by characteristic signals, similar to bird calls. The Club hopes to land tuna by this method...
...release in 1948, while eating his first home meal of raw tuna, Kishi received a phone call from Sugar Magnate Aiichiro Fujiyama, who had cared for the Kishi family during his imprisonment. He offered Kishi the chairman ship of one Fujiyama company and a directorship in another. With his income assured, Kishi looked around him at the new Japan. The good things of the occupation-land reform, abolition of the peerage, parliamentary democracy-were balanced, he thought, by such bad things as inflation, the breakup of the cartels and the wide influence of the Communists, who had been...