EELS IN THE WATERPIPES.
WATERPIPES. IO THE EDITOa. Sir,—The suggestion that the eels recently found in the water pipes had been hatched in the mains, and had spent all their lives in them, is nofc tenable. For it has been clearly established that eels never breed in fresh water, but only in the deeper parts of the ocean. All the eels in onr rivers and also in our water mains, must therefore have come originally from the sea. I am, etc..
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 8 March 1909, Page 1
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81EELS IN THE WATERPIPES. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 8 March 1909, Page 1
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