O'Neill got into the act, declaring this ''Bluefish Weekend'' in Connecticut.īut in the end, the 5 P.M. ''Going out today for that million-dollar fish? Are you from Bridgeport? No? Well, good luck to you anyway.'' Good for City's ImageĪlthough the city was not an official sponsor of the contest, the Mayor seized on it as a chance ''to put the focus on Bridgeport and on some favorable things here - we've been suffering from a negative image and this sort of thing helps.''Įven Gov. ''Good morning,'' he called out to a passing boat. He boated among them, shouting through a bullhorn. Paoletta of Bridgeport was there to cheer the fishermen on. Lest anyone's enthusiasm fade, Mayor Leonard S. Rick Abriola, a 26-year-old plumber, and two of his friends fished from Friday night through today. We kept looking at this fish for a couple of hours looking for that tag.'' We used a magnifying glass to look for the tag. ''See this fish?'' he said, holding up a blue of four inches and fewer ounces. ''We ate on the boat, we slept on it,'' Mr. Stewart said there was even a remote chance that the fish could have swum the 60 miles from Bridgeport to the ocean. Stewart, the science director of the National Undersea Research Program at the University of Connecticut at Avery Point. ''Just as an estimate, I'd say there are half a million to a million bluefish in the Sound,'' said Dr. Fisheries experts said the chance of catching the fish was as great as - well, as great as that of catching one particular fish in the more than 1,000 square miles of Long Island Sound. ''We're just here for the million,'' said John Chessari, a carpenter.īut right from the start, the odds were against him. The next five heaviest bluefish would be worth $1,000 each. Whoever caught the heaviest bluefish in that period would win $10,000. If any of the 4,000 fishermen, who each paid a $15 registration fee, caught the fish between midnight Friday and 5 P.M. What caused all the fuss - ''World War II revisited,'' Cliff Dolson of Wilton, Conn., called it - was a contest sponsored by a local radio station, WICC, and by Long Island Sound America, a nonprofit group that organizes events on the Sound.Ī five-pound bluefish was netted by the sponsors off Bridgeport, Conn., last Tuesday, tagged and released into the Sound at 11:15 A.M.
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