Some Aspects of the Feeding Behavior of Remora remora

Abstract

For several years the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological Laboratory, Honolulu, Hawaii, has been interested in holding captive tuna in ponds, and in 1958-59 conducted a series of tests of salt well-water as a medium for these fish. Preliminary experiments took place in a concrete cylinder 8 ft in internal diameter and 5 ft high, in which were confined a variety of reef and semipelagic fish, the latter being important because of our need to anticipate difficulties to be expected with the truly pelagic tunas.