THE SAILFISH 



MARINE MONSTER CAPTURED 



A huge sailfish, a fish rarely met with in 

 the Atlantic, has been captured by fisher- 

 men off Concarneau and towed to that port. 

 The fish measures eight metres long and 

 four metres in circumference and weighs 

 four tons. The fishermen are greatly dis- 

 turbed over the presence in the vicinity of 

 the fish's female companion, who followed 

 her captured lord throughout the whole of 

 the night he was being towed to port. 



—Figaro, 1914. 



The fish mentioned must have been a 

 Tetrapturus amplus, the third and only 

 other member of the istiophoridae. It is a 

 rare fish and is said to grow to a great size. 

 This fish is known in Cuba as the aguja 

 casta. 



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