11 MAY 1918, Page 16

'The Freshwater Fish Committee of the Board of Agriculture and

Fisheries has issued a most instructive little pamphlet on The Capture of Eels, which may be had free of charge by any one who writes for it. The Committee is indeed so anxious to diffuse useful knowledge about eels as to &anomie° that persons who want the pamphlet need not stamp their letters of application. More- over, the Committee is ready to supply elvers, or young eels, at three shillings and sixpence a thousand, carriage free to any station, for stocking lakes, reservoirs, farm ponds, marsh drains, and pools. The Committee's energy is most commendable. Our national supply of eels ought to increase rapidly when the first Of its elVers, after three or four years, are large enough for the market.