EXPORT EELS
ODD FISHING IN CANADA (Canadian Pres* Letter) MONTREAL, Jan. 5 A good crop for 1938 Is reported by eel fisheries, a curious Canadian industry which lives almost exclusively on exports to New York, Chicago, Berlin. Stockholm and Brussels. Canadians themselves eat only a -small fraction of the yearly catch. ) The chief fisheries are near the historic Isle of Orleans, within sight of Quebec City in the River St. Lawrence, and at St. Johns on the Richelieu River, near Montreal. The former trapped 800,000 pounds of live eels this -season and the latter 100,000 pounds. Live eels sell in New York City among the Italian papulation for approximately Is 3d a pound, while the balance of the “crop” is exported frozen and brings the fisherman about 3d a pound. The Isle of Orleans catch Is marketed by a co-operative. The St. Johns fisheries are owned by Pierre Thuot. 82 years of age, but still hale and hearty. The Thuot family has been licensed to catch eels in the Richelieu River for more than 100 years
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20741, 27 February 1939, Page 9
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176EXPORT EELS Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20741, 27 February 1939, Page 9
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