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Real Mess. Dr. Donaldson has been improving fish for 31 years. Starting with rainbow trout, a salmon relative, he bred ponderous super-rainbows that weighed 6 lbs. when only one year old, 500 times the weight of ordinary yearling rainbows. He still raises some of these juvenile giants and gives them to the state department of fisheries for secret release in lakes near Seattle. Then he drives out in the early morning to watch the fun. "All of a sudden," he says, "someone will yell like hell when he ties into one of these monsters. Fishing rods get broken...
Salmon are harder to breed than Donaldson's trout. Instead of spending all their lives in fresh water, where they can be fattened like hogs, ocean salmon come to fresh-water streams only to lay their eggs. When the fingerlings are three inches long, they take off for the sea, where they get most of their growth. They come home to deposit their eggs and sperm with unerring accuracy in the stream where they were hatched...
...detail. To extract two droplets from the flood: the book reveals that the four cords of wood that Dr. Lewis asked his son to chop on Feb. 23, 1903, were really 4¼ cords, and that on a Canadian trip in 1924 Lewis passed through Goose Lake, Snake Lake, Trout Lake, Clam Lake and Lac la Ronge. Research is the opium of the biographers; when the fit is on them, any fact, no matter how small, must be included just because it is available...
...sportsmen, Siberia is as rewarding as the U.S. West. In summer, entire families go berry picking, and fishermen have their choice of a hundred tumbling trout streams. Fall brings the traditional Russian search for mushrooms in the forests, and hunters throng the duck blinds on the reedy shores of Siberia's many lakes. Winter offers skiing and ice skating. In spring, however, Siberia is as frustrating as almost all Communist countries. Boy can meet girl, but he finds it impossible to take her anywhere that they can be alone. Even if boy marries girl, there is little chance...
...might make the idea work. At first, Music Minus One recorded chiefly classical releases, began to rake in the profits when it added jazz. It omits every instrument in the orchestra but the harp, often makes a single piece of music available in several mutations: Schubert's "Trout" Quintet can be bought without piano, violin, viola, cello or bass. The company's bestseller (20,000 copies) is a household nightmare: Rhythm Section Backgrounds for budding vocalists and various instruments. The best classical seller is an album of Mozart quartets for either violin or flute. Recently, for those...