STRICT CONTROLS on commercial fishermen as well as on anglers like the author, here fly-casting on the Grirrissci—allow Icelanders to maintain their salmon stock even as the world catch declines. Because of massive ocean netting, reported home-water harvests fell more than 40 percent from 1967 to 1980—from 2.9 million to 1.65 million fish. Also [...]
Two friends The gentleman in civilian clothes is my grandfather Joseph Thomas Osborne who was born in 1885 in Scotland and died in 1952. The soldier is unknown, but was presumably a friend. Judging from the rising sun badge on the uniform collar, the soldier is a member of the Australian Imperial Force. The [...]