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...Atlantis. The drought that afflicted the big city was plaguing a widespread area of the Northeast U.S. and parts of Canada. Anglers on New Brunswick's Kedgwick and Restigouche rivers went home salmonless because the rivers were so low that the fish could not make it upstream to spawn. At the Quabbin Reservoir, near Springfield, Mass., the water level dropped so far that a long-submerged race track came into view like a relic of some lost Atlantis. In Maine the 30 million-lb. blueberry crop was nearing its critical growth period in need of moisture. And the city...
Japanese "Piracy." The embarrassing fact is that after they leave their spawning grounds upriver from Alaska's Bristol Bay the sockeye swim farther out to sea than anyone imagined When the U.S., Canada and Japan instituted their North Pacific fisheries treaty in 1953, North American negotiators set 175 degrees west longitude as the eastward limit for Japanese fishermen, confident that no Alaska salmon ventured that far west. But Japa nese fishermen found plenty of sockeye outside the boundary, and marine biologists soon learned the truth: in its life cycle, the sockeye swims out around the Aleutian islands for more...
Finally, after two years of gallivanting around, the steelhead comes home to spawn. It even does that the hard way. Salmon spawn in October; rainbow trout lay their eggs in the fall and hibernate sluggishly on the bottom at the first cold snap. But winter-from...
PAUL REYBEROLLE-Marlborough-Gerson, 41 East 57th. The U.S. gets its first good look at a French painter who serves up frogs, couples and countrysides. As if performing a fertility rite in the paint itself, Reyberolle stirs around a mess of goopy green to convey the spume and spawn of swamp life and, with a calculated confusion of limbs, portrays lovers tumbling in a field, successfully suggests the mystery and fecundity of nature. Thirty oils. Through June...
...SPAWN OF EVIL by Paul I. Wellman. 350 pages. Doubleday...