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...hurting species that man wants to preserve. Last week Dr. James W. Moffett of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was getting encouraging results with a selective chemical designed to deal with the predatory eellike sea lamprey which has invaded the Great Lakes and almost exterminated the valuable lake trout (TIME, May 9). The lamprey, which bypassed Niagara Falls via the Welland Ship Canal, attaches itself to fish with a tooth-armed sucker and bores and sucks them to death. It has done so much damage to lake fisheries that the U.S. and Canada are spending large sums to cope...
...send him chemicals that might do the trick. In the last 2½years, the Hammond Bay Fishery Laboratory near Rogers City, Mich, has tested more than 5,000 of them. Out of this laborious screening has come a single compound that kills infant lampreys without hurting rainbow trout or bluegill sunfish. It is now being tested on other fish, and if it still looks good, next summer when the streams are low it will get a full-scale test...
...Tree" states a Frost-like theme (silent, unresponsive nature capable of instilling fear, frustration and solace in man) with a disappointing lack of economy. "The Ballad of Mother and Son" by Wilfred Watson contains some rather wild metaphors which are utterly mystifying. "I saw God like a trout in a creek" probably means that the speaker had a flashing glimpse of God, but "trout," "creek," and "God like a trout" seem extraneous and forced, if not totally meaningless. The other poems have similar difficulties to a lesser degree...
...President for six minutes. The conversation was limited to Adams' recent trip abroad, and Ike was particularly interested in his fishing expeditions last summer in German streams where Ike himself had fished, and in Turkey, at the headwaters of the Euphrates River, where Adams fished for golden trout...
...expedition relied on the abundant and delicious, caribou, trout, and ptarmigan, a chicken-like bird, for food...