This was back in the 60s and 70s when elvers were so prevalent along the river Severn that they used the leftover catch to fertilise the fields. The tradition died off in the late 70s when the eel population crashed and prices rose. There have been good crops of elvers in the Severn over the past few years and prices have dropped but the recently revived competition uses a reconstituted fish substitute.
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What a waste of money. You can sell a plate of living elvers for few hundreds of US dollars.
This was back in the 60s and 70s when elvers were so prevalent along the river Severn that they used the leftover catch to fertilise the fields. The tradition died off in the late 70s when the eel population crashed and prices rose. There have been good crops of elvers in the Severn over the past few years and prices have dropped but the recently revived competition uses a reconstituted fish substitute.