Fish Heads, Fish Heads; Roly-poly Fish Heads

This is a story for all of you fishermen (or women) out there. I’ve discovered a new way to catch fish. There are many ways that people fish here in Fiji. There’s line fishing. This is similar to the way we fish, but instead of a pole, they use a plastic bottle. There’s also spear fishing. Not the lame spear fishing that people do under water with a pressurized spear gun. This is spear fishing from the surface with a wooden spear that may or may not have a sharp metal tip. I described another method of fishing in a previous blog in which the fish are corralled into a net and then bashed to death with sticks. I’m not a big fan of that method since it’s fairly violent and makes the ocean smell of blood. This newer method is related to the net & bash method, but there’ an even better twist. Instead of bashing the fish to death with sticks, you just bite their heads to kill them. Yep. Crushing fish skulls with your teeth. Fortunately, I have not witnessed this method of fishing yet. It was described to me by the rest of the group who went to Taveuni.