Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1905 — Curious Mode of Catching Turtles. [ARTICLE]

Curious Mode of Catching Turtles.

A curious mode of catching turtles is practiced in the Wefct Indies. It consists in attaching a ring and a line to the tali of a species of sucker fish known as the remora. The live fish Is then thrown overboard and immediately makes for the first turtle he can spy, to which he attaches himself very firmly by means of a sucking apparatus arranged at the top of his bead. Once attached to the turtle, so firm Is his grip that the fisherman on drawing the line brings home both turtle and the sucker.