Particulars of a conger eel landed at Bluff on .Tuesday are supplied by Mr George Tiller, who caught the fisli (reports the bouthland Times). He writes’ “ The thing measured sft 8-Jm in. lengtli and 164 in in girth. It had inside three small cod, 11 mullet, and a lot of material which, to me, looked like ambergris. The weight all ’ told was 25Jlb. It is the first eel I have seen with a double chin.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 3862, 20 March 1928, Page 38
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