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National Geographic : 1974 Jan
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Some animals that weren't native to New foundland have been introduced, not so much for sport as to provide more protein in the is landers' diet. Caribou were always on the island-there are some 20,000 today-but moose were not, until several of them were imported around the turn of the century. From those few animals, all of Newfound land's moose herds are descended. Today there are forty to fifty thousand moose on the island. Another variety of big game, delight of deep-sea sportsmen, is Newfoundland's hard fighting bluefin tuna (the current record: 879 pounds), found in the northern and eastern coastal waters. As many as six hundred of them are caught annually, mainly by U. S. fishermen. The numerous charter boats, get ting $125 a day, enjoy a thriving business in the August-September season. I spent a day pretending to be a rich sports man on Sid Thistle's elegantly appointed boat, Zip II. The season before, Sid's clients had boated 16 fish, of some 600 pounds apiece, but this time out we had not so much as a strike. During our day on the waters of Notre Dame Bay, however, I learned some odd facts about the sport. For example, there was the baitfish Sid impaled on the murderous-looking hook-a CRYSTAL ICING of a "silver thaw" glitters on a bush in Harbour Grace. The freezing rain can buckle trees and power lines beneath its frosty weight, but heralds warmer days to come. Spring arrives in Newfoundland in April or May, ban ishing memories of winter snows with bursts of violets and crocuses and promises of summer days that linger till ten at night. National Geographic, January 1974 128
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