30 AUGUST 1924, Page 16

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] by chance, considering the

distance from which I write, my letter is not too late, I should like to add a word

to what " Piscator " has already written in your issue of June 28th. Sportsmen, on landing a fish, invariably knock it on the head. The only cases of allowing fish to "drown in the air" are the professional fishermen who catch too many in their nets to knock them all on the head, yet it is curious that the tender-hearted critics of the sporting angler omit to mention the professional fishermen who supply them with their breakfast herrings. If the hauls of such table delicacies were to fail, some of our most susceptible natures would, most probably, be amongst the first to com- plain of the high price of fish.—! am, Sir, &c.,

SHIKARI.