Sardine Sacrifice

Scowling and cursing, the captains of 130 big French fishing smacks put to sea at Douarnenez last week, every smack loaded to the gunwales with sardines.

"These sardines--more than 1,000,000 sardines--will never come back!" shouted the No. 1 smack captain. A few hours later the 1,000,000 little dead fish had been tossed into the sea as a supreme act of sardine sacrifice. Purpose : to force French sardine buyers, who had offered 5 1/4-c- per lb., to pay the fishermen's agreed price of 6-c-.

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