LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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1. The empty moulted shell 22 



2. " Berried " or " seed " lobster 25 



3. Shell disease 32 



4. Measuring a lobster 37 



5. Hoop net 38 



6. Traps and buoys 40 



7. Lobster creel— side view 46 



8. The Leakey " inhibitor " 48 



9. The Cornish pot 48 



10. The French pot 51 



11. The Dutch pot 52 



12. Plugging a lobster 57 



13. Banding with tabbed bands 59 



14. Tabbed rubber band 60 



15. Light lure 84 



16. The sealed glass globe 86 



17. One-day-old lobsters 130 



18. Maine rubber band 142 



19. Snap disk 143 



20. Snap disk 143 



21. Marked wooden plug 143 



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