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Poachers Ply a Sea of Secrets

Russian sailors call it a "spider"--a cyclone on a weather map fax. Before Pyotr Yakovlev went to sea one frigid afternoon five months ago, a fellow captain handed him a spider, and a friend urged him not to go.

By ROBYN DIXON, TIMES STAFF WRITER

June 8, 2001

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