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Their recovery has been slower in places like New Hampshire as a result of coastal development, lead poisoning from ingesting fish tackle and warmer conditions that impact their ability to breed.

Lead poisoning from ingested fish tackle has accounted for 44% of all documented adult loon deaths over the last 30 years.

There’s also a crammed fish tackle shop selling T-shirts, which the owner painstakingly brushes and folds, proffering them like a sheaves of gold.

This conviction was confirmed when the commander immediately afterwards ordered me to go forwards and tell the boatswain to get the fish tackle clear for hoisting in the lower deck guns as soon as they came alongside next morning in the dockyard lighters.

This was done, the heavy stream anchor, which was always kept ready on the forecastle in case of any such emergency, being eased down by means of its shank painter and the fish tackle until it rested comfortably across the sternsheets of the boat; while another stout hawser accompanying it, was coiled round the whole interior of the boat on top of the thwarts.