24 JULY 1971, Page 31

Of fish and flesh

Sir: Re the fondling probable Indian of dubious sex and his/her very white girl friend, whose public caresses in front of Cambridge fishermen were so frankly described in ' The Spectator's Note book ' (July 3) the literary voyeur who wrote this piece (and who can help but be one nowadays) states he realised he also could not tell the difference between a dace and a roach caught nearby.

However, I suggest it appears to be a scrap of inescapable logic that dace and roach, unlike trendy humans nowadays, do know the difference between each other, and do intend, by crook or by hook, mutually to preserve those differences.

For whoever has heard of a doach, or a race?

And therefore of a Doach Rela tions Board?

It seems we humans will have to learn Nature's lesson the hard way. . . .

Geoffrey Wood

Regional Editor, Rail News, British Rail. Paddington Station