Note 60 — PREFACE. (continued 6)
Reading edition
16. Of the ahi. Four hundred fathoms is the length of the line. Large hooks are required, with aku and opelu as bait. A nice flat stone is used as a sinker and when two times forty fathoms of line have been payed out into the deep, it is pulled up, then the weight drops and the ahi is caught by the hook. Then the fish dives carrying many forty lengths with it. The ahi60 is a very ferocious and powerful fish, and of prolonged vitality. The ahi will bear away three times before it dies. It has a very large body, fat and full of meat. Its meat is like that of a pig in thickness.