EEL FARMING.
The first war-time eel farm is owned by the Thames Conservancy, who, not to be behindhand in patriotic endeavour, purchased 300,009 eel spawn, to replenish the Thames. Many other districts followed suit, in order that this rich and nutritive food should yield its utmost during the lean times.
j Eimore-on-Severn was the prei war home of many German fish j agents. It was their business to pur- ! chase young eels at a small cost from local anglers, to dispatch them to Germany for fattening, and then to re-sell Britain's own produce to Billingsgate fishmongers. A novel idea, and one which repaid the Ger- , mau authorities who financed the j scheme over and over again, as much j as £200,000 a year being made out of it.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2649, 24 November 1919, Page 7
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128EEL FARMING. Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2649, 24 November 1919, Page 7
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