It is also caught by recreational fishers using hook-and-line (from boats or the shore), spears, and harpoons.
They used kayaks, atlatls and harpoons to kill sea mammals for sustenance.
They traditionally caught the turtles by using harpoons.
In French Polynesia, fishermen use harpoons, using a specifically designed boat, the poti marara, to pursue it, because mahi-mahi do not dive.
His favorite kind of fishing was swordfishing, using hand-thrown harpoons.
Instead, whales are harvested at sea often using explosive harpoons, which puncture the skin of a whale and then explode inside its body.
He used poisoned harpoons to slow it down, but he finished it off with an ax.
Spearfish are caught using harpoons or with nets that have sharp gills.
Then they began catching such coastal species as the great right and grey whales from rowing and sailing boats, using simple spears and harpoons.
The spawning season took place in the fall; ethnographic studies of the time report that night fishing, using torches and harpoons, was a common technique.
