So (2) question: How does it know that the bait is there?
Chemo-attractants etc? This would make the animal the veritable bloodhound
of the deep. Nautilus pompilius is the SCUBA mollusc...it's also the name
of a very popular Russian grunge band.

-ph

On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Richard Pyle wrote:

> > Which only leaves me with two questions: What do you fish nerds put in the
> > bait boxes to attract a Really Big Snail?  And, how does a distant
> > dudemollusc know the bait is there - smell?
>
> I've worked with the Waikiki Aquarium guys collecting Nautilus in Palau
> (different species from the one in PNG, but looks identical to the
> untrained eye).  They used a whole fresh skip-jack with slices in it, and
> would get 10-40 or so critters on an over-night set (they'd also get a
> bunch of big ugly conger eels).
>
> Rich
>


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