Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02

NX< Commercial Street In Portland Maine, operated
w a 80 pound cod recently and took from its stom-
ach a roll Photographic all the days work
These used to finding strange objects inside this
particular kind OF fish.
Nothing strange in that" smiled the Who found
the film There is greedier fish in the than the
He'll gobble anything that comes sithering down
through the depths that he gets his few years
ago while cleaning big fish here, found large
Jackknife-blade oPen-in its stomach
"A few days later another big Goldfish gave up big
beer bottle with label still That back in the
DAYS when most OF the yacht club cruises into Maine
waters marked by trail Of bottles generally corked
after being emped then thrown overheard just to see
float. Since there cork in this bottle it had
probably filled and Mr. Cod must have swallowed it as 1t
sank"
The articles fishermen find inside long
list Nippers common These are the heavy knitted
palms in hand fishing to keep the taut
lines from cutting into dory mans hands Naturally
many of these slip off and lost from the dores
II was only two years ago sealed Scotch
whisky found inside 70pound steak cod taken by
Isesboro fishermen OF course that was little I'M
usual times, but in these days when rum run
obliged TO etison quickly not surprising
Out at Biddeford Pool recently Waldo S. vcrr told OF
an interesting incident.
when used to go swordfishing more than once
have seen full grown dogfsh taken from the stomach
swordfish" Mr. Verrll said That is some swallowing
because the average dogfish from two and half to
three and half feet and will weigh five to eight
pounds Presumably the swordfsh fail about among the
dogfish schools with their swords stunning or Killing
victim before devouring it. But whoc dogtlsh at BuP
quite swallow"
Last Summer Fred ornes of Great Island took So
pound cod from his trap Half Way Rock in the stom-
ach Of which blackened briar pipe. Elmer Garcelon
of Small Point found ladys wristwatch and plain gold
ring in two different fish the day Quite likely
they carelessy lost overheard by the FEMININE mem
bers of deep fishing party.
Recently Luther Maddocks, of Boothbay Harbor dean
Of salt water fishermen reold curious incident About
60 wears ago the Willie c. capained by Ozze
Pinham sailed out of Boohbay Harbor for the Grand
Banks Two Of the crew. handne fishing from dory,
accidentally broke the handle Of their earthenWare water
Jug and tossed it overheard
tho inc aft When
decided the cook might possibly like it a container,
hande-less though it SO they took 1t back TO the
vessel Two months later the dorymates fishing on
the same Western Bank caught cod and in its stomach
was their Jug handle They back to the schooner
and it fitted old jug perfectly Both handle and jug
we're on exhibition with short account of the incident IL
a Boothbay Harbor museum for several years
mysterious find made by Jed Estes, Cliff Island
FISHERMAN In trap set offshore in Winter he caught
lobster around the tail Of which casped valuable
gold bracelet This mystery never will be solved mere
a-c no deep fishing parties in Winter and how the
bracelet TO be clasped the tail of the cusacean
rpcrs apparently with the object Of preventing
/, from slipping off battles everyone
In I.con vcars Homer LeBlann Of North Sydney Nova
Scotia TOOK from the stomach Of large cod bracelet set
with 70 small diamonds worth perhaps 500. The theory
was that this bauble have been lost overheard in
some way from a passing ocean liner.
Ichthyoogsts have found tho Gods stomach TO be mine
of information in study Of molss Taken collectively
these sheIfsh probably the largest item IN the Dict
Of goldfish of the coast The shells Of the hen clam
measuring five to six inches across are frequently found
n the stomachs Of large cod all neatly stacked house
wife might arrange sauccrs IN pile says the United
states Bureau Fisheries The fish e'so swallow lob
sters both large small and hermit crabs ana viii
pursue and goree themselves sqid Any fisherman VIII
ten stories Of finding whole mackore shad silver haic
aeivcs and other smaller Goldfish In this
carrihaIs interior.
The Bureau az Fshfrcs has MANY rero.ds Of |t COD
fish that have seized og,' ,aots ss1.tss aHa vJ
ducks these birds rested the surface OF The oc"a0
Another odd feature of the Gods appetite Is thot q VIII
gohble down unbelievable quantities Of STONES al The way
pebbles 60 rocks as large as hens 'etF 'e tran
likely swallowed fo tho sake o. uc anc-
mones hydrods and similar creatures that are growing
% them.