. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 5VIII. No. 451 THE AGRICULTUEAL NEWS. 2fl" THE FISHERMAN-FISH. In the of .Mozambiiiut nn ihe Coast ot -Africa, tisherinen use free-swimmicg fish to tatch other feh. These iisheriuea-tish. or 'Uhagos' as they ate called j<i<"4ily belo!^.'. to ihe genera Eel eueis or Eemora, which are distinguished by a cephalic sucker on the head, by means of •which these fish can attach and can stick with tenacity to boats, or to sharks, turtles, <; and other
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 5VIII. No. 451 THE AGRICULTUEAL NEWS. 2fl" THE FISHERMAN-FISH. In the of .Mozambiiiut nn ihe Coast ot -Africa, tisherinen use free-swimmicg fish to tatch other feh. These iisheriuea-tish. or 'Uhagos' as they ate called j<i<"4ily belo!^.'. to ihe genera Eel eueis or Eemora, which are distinguished by a cephalic sucker on the head, by means of •which these fish can attach and can stick with tenacity to boats, or to sharks, turtles, <; and other s*iflswimuung animals. The tippcaraiji-tf ol a lishermanfish is shown in the first illttstra- lioc below, 'riiey aie about 3 feci in A FishJiKM.^N-Fish (A't///wt To recent, issues of the Amer'caii jS'ntmiiisl Mr. E W. Oud^er, of the Araerioan Museum of Natural History. Ne"w York City, has contributed a series of papers on the use of sucking-fish for catching fish and turtles The I iiivf fishermen of Zanzibar, he states, keep their ' Chagos' in water containers in their canoes, and are so tame as to cjine to the surface of the water at the appearance of their masters, by whom they allow themselves to be freely handled When biding employed for hunting, a line is attar-hed to ii ring or loop fixed just above the tail, the being kept in of wa',er which is frequently renewed. The "fishermen then .^iail their boats to regions frequented by "turtles. animals have the habit of sleeping at the surlace of the water on which they float, and their sleep is .so liE[ht that the least of au approaching fishiog boat is sutticient to wake them and cause them to flee to great ;, or to plunge to great depths. At a distance sutticient to prevent this disturbance, the fishermen put their • Chagos" in the water, .tnd these, delivered in part from their captivity, seek to escape by swimming in all directions. The. Ple
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