On Friday of this week, after we have gone to
press, the Food Council will have before it Reports on the prices of meat, milk and fish. We hope that the Council will be able to do something to reduce the present price of fish, which seems to be often outrageously unreasonable. The only important weapon- which the Council has for hacking its way through abuse is publicity, but it is a serviceable weapon, and the Council has made very good use of it already. According to figures published n the Times, the retail price for all food, including fish, t the beginning of May, was 54 per cent. higher than efore the War, but on the same date the retail price f fish alone stood at 115 per cent. above the level before he War. The owners of trawlers say that no excessive gouts are coming their way. They admit that they get fair price for a small percentage of their fish, but they y that on some 50 per cent. of the catch they make radically nothing.
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