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...bitter battle of the Great Lakes has been going on for 40 years, and for 40 years, from Erie to Superior, an ugly, blood-sucking monster has been winning. Chief losers have been the splendid lake trout-even though man himself has been their ally. But now news has come at last that the monsters are being beaten: a subtle chemical, cleverly used, has almost cleared Lake Superior of the invading fish-killing sea lamprey...
Lively Larva. Lampreys prefer the larger fish, especially the tasty lake trout, which are also favorites of human gourmets. Lake by lake, as the lampreys advanced the trout disappeared. In 1935 the Lake Huron commercial catch was 6,000,000 lbs.; by 1945 it had dropped below 1,000,000 lbs. Later it fell to almost nothing. In Lake Michigan the story was the same. In Lake Superior, last lake to be invaded, the trout catch fell from...
...excess pounds that had his fellow pros calling him "Ohio Fats" (in college, his nicknames were "Blob-O" and "Whaleman." He also had to learn to adjust to the nomadic life of a pro: until last week, when he decided to take a few days off and fish for trout, Jack had been home for only 17 days since January. When he wearily pulled up outside his modest, green-shuttered Cape Cod in suburban Upper Arlington, Ohio, his neighbors were ready for him: WELCOME HOME, 1962 OPEN CHAMP read a banner hanging from the roof. P.S., SOMEONE ALREADY MOWED YOUR...
Except for five early years on the Boston Evening Transcript, McCord has been at Harvard ever since he graduated in 1921. He says that in retirement, "Chinese, Greek, Debussy, tobacco, trout are the things I want to investigate-in that order...
...Ehrenburg and Pasternak but Tolstoy and Turgenev, al though he has nothing like the power or skill of any of them. His customary setting is the Rumania of three generations past, a Ruritanian rural province of marshes and forests and rivers aswarm with ducks to be shot, trout to be caught, and canny peasants to be put upon by the local landowners (known as boyars...