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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16113, 18 January 1918, Page 4

An interesting fight between a shark and big eel was witnessed last week from the rocks at Scott s 1 oint, Humpvbong (says the "Brisbane Daily Mail"). A big eel foraging up the tidal basin was attacked by a blue shark between three and four feet long, and a ding-dong go lasting a full threo or four minutes was 1 ought out. The shark held the eel across the head and throat, and with powerful forward thrusts savaged his prey, the eel meanwhile forcing the fight, inshore. Twice the eel threw the shark clear of the water, somersault fashio\\, and the alternating flash of white bellies and lashing tails was quite inspiring. Tho fight held till the combatants came into shoal water, and the shark let go, but as the eel broke clear he made a final stroke which severed a foot or 18 inches of tail., The eel, dreadfully wounded, swam slowly along the rocks, and sought refuge in a cranny, not deeply submerged, where he was marked down. Patience and a stout boathook secured him as the tide waters receded. Investigations showed him to be a rock eel, or morav, of the silver variety, thicker than the upper arm of a powerful man, and what was left of him was four feet long.