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WITH reference to Mr. A. C. Haddon's interesting account of the use of the Remora or sucker-fish by the natives of Torres Straits in fishing for turtles (NATURE, January 17, p. 285), I may call attention to the paper on this subject read by our corresponding member, Mr. Frederick Holmwood, C.B., late H.B.M. Consul at Zanzibar, before the Zoological Society of London, on June 17, 1881 (see P.Z.S., 1881, p. 411), which Mr. Haddon does not seem to be acquainted with. Mr. Holmwood has fully described the mode of the use of the Remora by the native fishermen of Zanzibar in catching turtles and fishes. It is curious to find a somewhat similar method of employing the Remora practised by the islanders of Torres Straits.
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SCLATER, P. Use of the Remora in Fishing. Nature 39, 295 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039295b0
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