It recommends eating mature sprat or opting for sardines or anchovies as an alternative.

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Partly, he is a child, catching crabs and minnows, quite clear (as his four-year-old cousin isn't) about just how dead a dead sprat is.

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"Sometimes you just throw a little sprat now and again - to be fair, he trained as if to say 'please don't leave me out' in the last couple of days, so he did it himself, " said Bruce.

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