FISHING: Out of Bait

Tucked away in timbered, fish-oil-soaked sheds on Seattle's waterfront is a super hush-hush business : salmon egg canning. Though even Seattleites know little about it, this small-fry business is of strategic importance to fishermen everywhere.

Thousands of trout fishermen west of the Mississippi use the pink-and-orange-dyed skeins of salmon eggs for bait (TIME, Jan. 31). Last week, this little business was in trouble. Reason : WPB had cut off its supply of glass containers.

For the nonce, the six ruggedly individualistic canners had got together to fight the ban. They were led by one of the big gest of them, a...

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