Dutch officials said yesterday that a man had bought two bags of fish food with a euro banknote - three months before the official introduction of single currency notes and coins. The man used a five-euro note to pay for his nine guilders purchase in the Fish Inn fishing shop in the south-east town of Venlo, on the border with Germany, last week, central bank and justice officials said. "The banknote was printed in Germany," said Mr Frank Rovers, a spokesman for the public prosecutor in nearby Roermond. "It's not clear whether it was obtained through theft." Some 1.2 million euros were stolen early last month from a Securicor van in Giessen, north of Frankfurt, as the notes began to be distributed ahead of their launch.