Editing Remora (section)

== Use for fishing ==
Some cultures use remoras to catch turtles. A cord or rope is fastened to the remora's tail, and when a turtle is sighted, the fish is released from the boat; it usually heads directly for the turtle and fastens itself to the turtle's shell, and then both remora and turtle are hauled in. Smaller turtles can be pulled completely into the boat by this method, while larger ones are hauled within harpooning range. This practice has been reported throughout the [[Indian Ocean]], especially from eastern Africa near [[Zanzibar]] and [[Mozambique]],<ref>{{Cite journal | author=Gudger, E. W. | year=1919 | title=On the Use of the Sucking-Fish for Catching Fish and Turtles: Studies in ''Echeneis'' or ''Remora'', II., Part 1. | journal=The American Naturalist | volume=53 | issue=627 | pages=289–311 | doi=10.1086/279716 | jstor=2455925 | url=https://zenodo.org/record/1431359 | doi-access=free }}</ref> and from northern Australia near [[Cape York Peninsula|Cape York]] and [[Torres Strait]].<ref>{{cite journal | author=Gudger, E. W. | year=1919 | title=On the Use of the Sucking-Fish for Catching Fish and Turtles: Studies in ''Echeneis'' or ''Remora'', II., Part 2 | journal=The American Naturalist | volume=53 | issue=628 | pages=446–467 | doi=10.1086/279724 | jstor=2456185 | url=https://zenodo.org/record/1431359 | doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12525 | title=Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. etc. During the Years 1846–1850 | last=MacGillivray | first=John | volume=2 | date=1852 | publisher=Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty | location=London}} (Dr. Gudger's accounts are more authoritative, but this source is noted as an early account that Gudger appears to have missed.)</ref>

Similar reports come from Japan and from the Americas. Some of the first records of the "fishing fish" in the Western literature come from the accounts of the second voyage of [[Christopher Columbus]]. However, [[Leo Wiener]] considers the Columbus accounts to be [[apocrypha]]l: what was taken for accounts of the Americas may have been, in fact, notes Columbus derived from accounts of the East Indies, his desired destination.<ref>{{cite journal | author=Wiener, Leo | author-link=Leo Wiener | year=1921 | title=Once more the sucking-fish | journal=The American Naturalist | volume=55 | issue=637 | pages=165–174 | doi=10.1086/279802 | jstor=2456418 | s2cid=85369826 | url=https://zenodo.org/record/1431361}}</ref>