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...have dragged their hooks in the sea for excitement rather than nourishment, slim, voluble Van Campen Heilner of Spring Lake Beach, N. J. is one of the most generous. With camera (still and motion) and typewriter he constantly shares his catches with less footloose lovers of fishing, and now he has compressed 25 years of expert sea angling experience within the covers of a 432-page book* in which he not only rhapsodizes about big ones caught and lost but gives an extremely tangible summary of his secrets for taking every American salt water species worth wetting a line...
...CAMPEN HEILNER...
Depression. Last year's kill was estimated at one-third of normal. Naturalist Van Campen Heilner figured the cost of the shortened season at $60,000,000. Wildfowl shooting normally is a $100,000,000-a-year industry, the money going for guides, guns, shells, food, clothing, transportation, grain, etc., etc.?about $50 from each of two million shooters. Furthermore, millions of dollars are spent on preserves: near Sandusky, Ohio $3,000,000 was spent for dikes alone; at Currituck Sound, N. C., Tycoons William Ellis Corey (steel) and Joseph Palmer Knapp (American Lithographic...
...CAMPEN HEILNER* Spring Lake Beach...
Last winter, El Nino was delayed a trifle. It did not reach Eucador until the second week in January. Dr. Murphy and his companion, Van Campen Heilner, went out in launches to meet it, measure its speed, density, temperature and so on. They noted that the sea's heat rose more than 60° that one day. Schools of flying fish appeared, shoals of hammerhead sharks, flocks of seabirds. Then, from what took place on shore, they noted that El Nino had come in vaster volume, gone farther south then ever before in history...