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WITH reference to Mr. Sclater's note in NATURE of January 24 (p. 295), on the use of the Remora in fishing, I would like to call attention to the use of sucker-fishes by the aboriginal inhabitants of Cuba. Ferdinand Columbus (“Churchill's Voyages,” 1704, vol. ii. p. 616) says these people used the sucker-fish to Catch both other fish and turtles. These fishes when tied “by the tail run themselves against other fish, and by a certain roughness from the head to the middle of the back, they stick so fast to the next fish they meet, that, when the Indians perceive it, drawing their line, they draw them both together.”
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ROTH, H. Use of Sucker-Fishes in Fishing. Nature 39, 342 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039342b0
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