My Grandmother Did This | Titiree in a Bushiree in Sauteurs, St. Patrick | Grenada 🇬🇩 turns 50 |

As Grenada 🇬🇩 celebrates 50 years of independence, One One Cocoa explores some activities of old. I return to my hometown, Sauteurs, St. Patrick to see how my grandmother caughttitiree. This video shows how titiree, also called titiwi and treetree is caught.
Titiree is a small translucent fish caught between days 2 and 5 after the last quarter of the moon. The eggs are laid in the river, washed down to the see where they hatch. After hatching, they travel from the see back to the river.
You can see how important it is to have the river and the see meet. The point at which they meet is called a busherie, (estuary). Fun fact…we grew up thinking that BUSHEREE was the name of the place, similar to another village. Only later in life i learnt the true meaning.
My grandmother used to set bags in the river by placing stones to hold it down. She also put straw on the bags and then left it overnight. She returned in the morning to get the rewards of her labour…titiree. This required her to enter the river sometimes knee high. She also frequented the river to get stones to sell. These river expeditions might explain why she always said she had cold in her body from being on the river.
This was an informative and fun trip and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
See you next time for another adventure on One One Cocoa.
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