OIL FROM EELS
POSSIBLE NEW INDUSTRY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 19. Urgent investigations into the extent of supplies of eels in New Zealand is being made by the fisheries branch of the Marine Department to learn whether it is feasible to establish .in industry to produce fish oil from eels and utilise the waste for fertiliser. “It is my personal opinion,” said Mr D. F. Hobbs, biologist of the fisheries branch, in a letter received by the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, “that the demand for fish oil, as stimulated by the needs of essential Australian and New Zealand war Industries, is such that there is at present a far better opportunity of establishing an Industry for the utilisation of eels than may recur for many years.” He emphasised that operations would probably be on only a small scale.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22202, 20 February 1942, Page 3
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136OIL FROM EELS Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22202, 20 February 1942, Page 3
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