QUEER FISH

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6544, 28 February 1928, Page 9

QUEER FISH

Alaska has a fish which/ when dried, can. be used as a candle. The electric cel is so called because of a kind of electric point at the tip of the tail. It can give off a shock enough to stun a man (says tho Newcastle Weekly Chronicle). The angler fish is the “will-o’-the-wisp” of fishland. Its body is camourflaged like seaweed, and as it lies on the sea bod it can give off a red light which attracts smaller fish on which the “angler” feeds The eyes of soles and plaice move about their bodies twhile young. In early days they swim upright with an eye on each side, but .as they begin to swim flat one eyo crosses right over the body, until both eyes are on the same side In some oases the eye is believed to have passed right through tho body. It is from the cuttlefish that we get our beautiful speia colour It is ejected as a sort of fluid. One tpecies of shark, grows to fully 40 feet in length, and is quite harmless. A crab caught, marked, and then released was found .to have travelled from Cromer to Flamborough Head (England), over 100 miles away while a plaice has been proved to have travelled well oyer 200 miles in but a month or two. Tho waters around Hong Kong have a fish with almost a human-looking head, and which gives a cry almost like that of a baby.