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The West Country. Westward still, where Brixham's whitewashed houses climb the red sandstone cliffs above Tor Bay, patient Devon fishermen mend their nets and watch for signs that offshore fishing is again allowed. Napoleon paused at Brixham on his way to St. Helena. Brixham fishermen were among the...
Baseball, however, is his first love; he played college ball at the University of Illions and has been coaching baseball teams ever since. In addition to these coaching duties, he is now in charge of the athletic program for Company B of the ASTP unit here, a full-time job...
The only bad news from the Pacific last week was the soup-fin shark shortage. After scouring the oceans since the Silurian Age, sharks seemed to be disappearing from the West Coast. The 400 to 500 West Coast fishing boats searching for soup-fin sharks from Seattle to Mexico roamed...
Shark fishing became big business in 1938 when "Tano" Guaragnella, a fin-sharp San Francisco fish broker, sent a soup-fin shark liver to a chemist, learned that the livers of Galeorhinus zyopterus are the richest known source of Vitamin A.
California Packing Corp., Washington Laboratories, Halibut Liver Oil Producers and vitamin-conscious Borden Co. have become big buyers and processors of shark livers. Borden shark-fishing boats are busy off the West Coast of North America and as far south as Chile. Early in April Borden moved into the Gulf...