STRANGE FINDS IN FISH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18565, 24 November 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)

STRANGE FINDS IN FISH.

RINGS AND BROOCHES., v-1 HAn old wedding ring has been found inside a scallop dredged up - T off/- Weymouth. -V How it got there is beyond guessing, but there it was, badly discoloured, with no mark or sign to show whose fin* ger it had ever adorned. There is scarcely a fisherman who can. not tell of some strange find made while -jp cleaning, his catch. A Worthing angler caught a codling two and a half pounds j>| in weight, and found inside it a claw ring yJ in which was set an extremely good diamond.

Cod are greedy, and will swallow any* > thing bright. A woman living at Chumside, in Berwickshire, bought one of these fish from an Eyemouth Dealer and discovered inside it a blue enamel brooch with lettering and a number. -She f®4*l vertised it, and it was found to belong r ; ? to an Edinburgh woman whose- daughter had lost it at Elie, in Fife. . Whenever a shark is caugh it is always i cut open to see what is inside. A shark caught in March, 1912, off the island jofdg Mauritius had inside it a dog, a goat, • and a regular museum of bones. ~-- fl Another smaJl shark taken off the North American coast was found to contain a hand-bag in which were four English sovereigns, six shillings, four United Stated, J dollars, a diamond ring, and a love-letter.',4| The most amazing or all such finds was ; made in October, 1915. It was believed • that Germans in the United States *bAdj| chartered vessels to supply the Gernwn submarines, but it was some time before proof could be obtained. \* f Then some Brazilians caught a shark ys off Pernambuco and, opening it, found inside a bag containing the papers of a' steamer named Maria Quesada, which had M sailed from the American pert of New-; J port News. These papers proved beyond doubt tha^- this vessel had been chartered for the purpose of helping German sabmarines. ■ ' •„ ;