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Show Elvers Have Place on German Tables Again Germans are happy, and elvers onre more adorn the board of the hausfrau, for the British have reKram'-ed reKram'-ed permission, revoked In the World war, to Germany to catch the small eels which are plentiful in the English channel. Elvers are smoked before being eaten and are estimated a great delicacy by the Teutons. With the year following the regrant-Ing regrant-Ing of the privilege, Germans trawling traw-ling for elvers In English waters caught 3,000,000 eels, many of them being used for restocking 130 German Ger-man lakes and rivers. The eels-are taken to Germany In containers, each holding 5,000. Fishing experts say that the eels migrate to the -Gulf of Mexico to spawn, and that the young are carried ' back" to European waters by the Gulf stream. |