Sport: Wartime Fishing

Fishing, most popular of U.S. sports, is now in full season, but the vast army of U.S. anglers are not entirely happy. War has cut into the sport.

Hardest-hit is the saltwater fisherman. Outside of surf and bay fishing, there are only a few spots where saltwater angling is allowed: notably in the Pacific off Southern California's Santa Monica pier, where chartered boats may go as far as ten miles offshore ; in some parts of the Florida keys ; and the famed tarpon paradise at Aransas Pass in Texas. To fish in any...

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