There is another case of a man named Durand, who held a mullet between his teeth while rebaiting his hook.

The fish, in the convulsive struggles of death, slipped down the throat, and because of the arrangement of its scales it could be pushed down but not up; asphyxiation, however, ensued.

Stewart has extensively described the case of a native "Puckally" of Ceylon who was the victim of the most distressing symptoms from the impaction of a living fish in his throat.

The native had caught the fish, and in order to extract it placed its head between his teeth, holding the body with the left hand and the hook with the right.

He had hardly extracted the hook, when the fish pricked his palm with his long and sharp dorsal fin, causing him suddenly to release his grasp on the fish and voluntarily open his mouth at the same time.