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Shannon News, 31 December 1928, Page 3

Th. Danish scientific mission, now at Auckland, u- the most, completely equiuped that has visited New Zealand! The members travel in their own v"ssel which is specially fitted with laboratories and scientific instruments. The leader, Dr. Johannes Schmidt is primarily' interested in studying the habits of eels, which are highly, piized as a table 'delicacy in Deiimark. “Observations made in the Atlantic show that these, creatures migrate froip Europe many thousands of miles to spawn, travelling even as far as the West Indies,” he said. “The time taken for the young to accomplish the voyage back to the rivers of the Continent runs into as long a period as three'-years.” The scientists .expect to complete all the work in New Zealand waters within three weeks. Experiments will be carried .out in the Haurald Gulf, possibly off the Bay of Islands, and at other points down the East Coast as far as Wellington, from which point the ship will take her departure for Australia, eanying out research in the Tasman Sea en route.