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It was a coarse and meagre meal; at which even a pauper would have pouted his lips; but to those for whom it was intended it had relish enough to make it not only acceptable, but welcome. A greater delicacy was before their eyes, lying on the deck of the Catamaran. That was the albacore, a fish whose flesh is equal in excellence to that of any taken out of the ocean.
Usually four Japs constitute the crew of one of these fast eighty-horse-power motor-boats. They roam the sea with sharp eyes ever alert for that thin white line on the horizon, the feeding albacore. Their method of fishing is unique and picturesque. When they sight albacore they run up on the school and slow down. In the stern of the boat stands a huge tank, usually painted red.
It has not yet been established that swordfish feed on these schools, but the swordfish were there in abundance, at any rate; and it was reasonable to suppose that some of the fish they feed on were in pursuit of the anchovies. Albacore feeding on the surface raise a thin, low, white line of water or multitudes of slight, broken splashes.
But just then the Nautilus's slanting fins took us to great depths, and I could see nothing of those high coral walls. I had to rest content with the various specimens of fish brought up by our nets. Among others I noted some long-finned albacore, a species in the genus Scomber, as big as tuna, bluish on the flanks, and streaked with crosswise stripes that disappear when the animal dies.
There were American triggerfish for which nature has ground only black and white pigments, feather-shaped gobies that were long and plump with yellow fins and jutting jaws, sixteen-decimeter mackerel with short, sharp teeth, covered with small scales, and related to the albacore species.
Its waters supplied excellent fish for the tables on board: mackerel, bonito, albacore, and a few varieties of that sea serpent named the moray eel. The Nautilus had cleared 8,100 miles.
The fishermen to furnish albacore, tuna and sardines at the same price paid by the Golden Rule Cannery. The cannery to assume complete liability for all boats and equipment used by the fishermen in providing fish for it. The cannery to agree to pay all fines, state and federal, for any violation of fishing or navigation laws.
A long time after this, a shadow bigger and blacker than that of any albacore bigger than that of any shark or saw-fish drifted over the cove. There was a splash, and a heavy object came down upon the bottom, spreading the swift stillness of terror for yards about. The shadow ceased drifting, for the boat had come to anchor.
Now and again a long, black shadow would sail slowly over the scene of freakish life the shadow of a passing albacore or barracouta. Instantly the shining fish would hide themselves among the shining shells, and every movement, save that of the unconsciously waving weeds, would be stilled.
He is the most beautiful of bass slender, graceful, thoroughbred, exquisitely colored like a paling opal, and a fighter if there ever was one. What becomes of these seven tons of white sea-bass and all the other tons and tons of yellowtail and albacore? That is a question. It needs to be answered. During the year 1917 one heard many things.
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