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Bonito

The motor canoe had just passed through a gap in the reef into the open sea when the helmsman noticed sea birds swooping and large fish leaping from the surface. He immediately changed course, a hand line was deployed and after two passes the first bonito was hooked.

The large tuna was not going to give up quietly. It thrashed around until the fisherman picked it up and dashed it aganst the side of the canoe. After that, it lay still.

Bonito are caught and eaten throughout the South Pacific islands. The fish, caught off Suav'a Lagoon on North Malaita island in the Solomons, fed a family and their guests that night.

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