Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1904 — Curious Mode of Catching Turtles. [ARTICLE]

Curious Mode of Catching Turtles.

A curious mode of catching turtles Is practiced in the West Indies. It consists In attacldng n ring aDd a line to the tall of a species of sucker fish known ns the remora. The live fish is then thrown overboard and immediately makes for the first turtle he can spy, to which he attaches very firmly by means of h sucking apparatus arranged at the top of his bead. Once attached to the turtle ; sofimJß his grip that the tlshcnm^^B i t ;