Word: spawning
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Royce predicted, the rush came. At first fishermen were limited by state conservation regulations to fishing only one day a week. Then, as the number of salmon grew, the limits were dropped for fear the spawning grounds might become too crowded. Because the fishermen were prepared with extra help, they hauled in salmon until the canneries could not process any more. In all, some 40 million salmon coursed through Bristol Bay, bound for the clear headwaters of the Kvichak, Nushagak and Ugashik rivers to spawn and die. Nearly 15 million were caught...
...riverbanks through drifts of snow, shiver for hours in near-zero weather temperatures, often squinting at his line through a needling spray of sleet. For only in winter's nadir does Europe's mightiest game fish begin to strike as it gets ready to spawn in the spring. And only when the weather is abominable-visibility poor, the river lashed by storm-will the wary huchen flash up to hit a lure...