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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke
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To: mrknowitall who wrote (10511)6/28/1999 6:20:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.  Read Replies (2) of 62549
 
That's one of my favorite jokes. I first read here
a year or two ago.

Monday June 28 11:44 AM ET

Englishmen In Fishy Deal On Norway Salmon River

OSLO (Reuters) - Two English brothers paid almost $100,000 to fish one of Norway's top salmon rivers but low stocks
mean they may never be allowed to cast a hook into the water, a Norwegian daily said Monday.

Aftenposten said the Vosso River in west Norway, where the pair have rights to fish for 35 days between 1997 and 2001,
had been closed for several years by Norwegian officials due to low stocks of fish and parasites.

And the river, famed among fishing experts for prize salmon often weighing 55 to 66 pounds in past decades, was likely to
stay shut for several more years to enable the fish stocks to recover.

The brothers paid another English family, which has owned the rights for a century, 62,000 pounds for 35 days of fishing in
1995, knowing the river was closed but hoping it would soon reopen. The cost was high, even for a fully-stocked river.

''We were young and stupid and we went for it. All the same we're not sure we heard the full truth about the state of the
Vosso river,'' one of the brothers told Aftenposten, adding they were considering legal action to get back part of the cash. It
did not name the brothers.
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