THE CONSERVATION OF OUR OYSTER SUPPLY. 17 



Fig. 13. St.)RTiNG THE Growing Seed Oysters at Arcachon. 



This scene is precisely similar to that which takes place at the 

 opening and closing of the great sturgeon fishing of the Don Cos- 

 sacks in southern Russia, which I described, in an article on Stur- 

 geon Fishing on the Don, in 1800. 



Fig. 14. The Celebrated French Oyster Park at Breneguy. 

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