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Show Men Who Go Down to Sea In Ships for Victory Food In quaint fishing towns off America's many coasts men who are following their forefathers on the sea find fishing a booming industry. The armed forces consume more than half of all the frozen fish in the United States. An even greater amount, 80 per cent, of the mackerel and r. j ,t'A sardine pack is consumed by the armed forces. In addition, civilian requirements have increased in-creased as housewives, faced with a meat shortage, have turned to fish as a main course alternate. The fisherman's job is not an easy one. Added to the normal nor-mal hazards of the sea are the submarine menace and the difficulties resulting from material ma-terial shortages. However, fishermen continue operations despite new perils, striving to equal former records. John Riberia, captain of the fisliing trawler, Old Glory, kisses his wife before leaving for the fishing grounds off the Massachusetts Massachu-setts coast. Fisliing trips usually extend from four days to a week. Certain varieties of fish are appearing ap-pearing on the markets for the first time, and New England fishermen fish-ermen are hauling in large quantities quan-tities of rosefish, a variety considered consid-ered useless five years ago. Picture Pic-ture at right shows heavy nets sliding down Old Glory's side, where rosefish are being sought. I ' U IVrf v ! ""it , J A, :5 v., s Muscles strain as husky fishermen of Portuguese descent pull nets on board the Old Glory. Their haul is rosefish, once called "goldfish" because of the brilliant color. Mi. t - $ t"v I5y ' Shown above is a typical pier hand on the docks at Gloucester, Mass. This port has been a famous fishing center cen-ter for centuries. Immediately after being caught rosefish are shoveled into the hold for packing in ice. The crew members are up at dawn and put in their trawl for the morning catch. : ' a At sunset fishermen mend nets torn by rocks on the ocean floor, j |