The Fish and the Ring

Abstract

THE city of Glasgow bears in its coat of arms a fish with a ring in its mouth, and the incident so commemorated involved a lady's honour in the days of St. Kentigeon. But since rubber rings were invented, the association between fish and ring has become a matter of solid fact. In the Australian Museum Magazine of April, G. P. Whitley has collected accounts of curious cases where fishes have become involved in rings, and the examples range from garfish and mackerel with rubber rings sur-rounding and even partly embedded, in their bodies, to a shark, captured at Havana, Cuba (recorded by Dr. Gudger), and adorned by a motor-car tyre which encircled its body and was prevented from slipping over the tail by the dorsal fin and from slipping over the head by the pectorals.