Electric Fishing Beware - Other Colour Pics Share This Title (1958)

River Wizzy, Norfolk. M/S of two men, Bailiff O’Toole and Lord Amherst, taking fishing nets from the back of the Land Rover. Camera pans to show the river bank with a little boat with two men in it. One of them is Chief Fisheries Officer Norman Machenzie. There are two pieces of electrical equipment in the middle of the boat. One man picks up one piece of the equipment, which looks like a transmitter, and attaches a cable to it. M/S of another man dropping the other end of the cable into water. C/U shot of the other piece of equipment. This is a new form of fishing - electric fishing, used here to separate the coarse fish from the trout. “...this apparatus gives off an electric current strong enough to stun any fish in the immediate vicinity... The fish are stunned for a short period but recover in a matter of minutes.“ M/S of the two men in the boat moving their nets through the water. There are two ropes, one at each side of the boat, pulled by Lord Amherst and Mr O’Toole so that the boat is moving b