LIGHT AS A BARRIER FOR EELS
The Danish government under the direction of its biological station at Copenhagen, has begun an interesting effort to aid the fishermen of the Baltic by preventing the migration of eels from the sea into the ocean. The means employed is a “barrier of light’’ formed by placing fifty electric lamps along a submerged cable between the island of Fano and the coast of Funen. The effectiveness of such a barrier depends upon the fact that the eele migrate only during the dark hours. Accordingly, as sooni as darkness begins, in the season of migration, the lamps are illuminated, a n!(l thus a wall of light is interposed from which the eels recoil. A similar principle is said to have been employed from time immemorial by fishermen on certain parts of the coast of Italy.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2282, 29 January 1912, Page 7
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140LIGHT AS A BARRIER FOR EELS Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2282, 29 January 1912, Page 7
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