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2. Liglits for lures. Try lights outside of a pot, perhaps 

 four or five feet above. All experiments with lights have 

 been made with the light inside the pot. Inside, a light 

 might repel a lobster from entering. A light outside might 

 lure a lobster into the neighborhood of the pot without 

 scaring him from entering. The attraction of the bait might 

 complete his capture. 



Devise a practical way to shake up a neon-and-mercury 

 glass bulb so that it will light up. It has shown some prom- 

 ise as a lure. 5 



3. Brands. Develop an inexpensive and quick way of 

 marking a lobster. 



4. Better lobster pots. Design a better lobster pot, or 

 even only part of a pot. It is reported that the base of a pot 

 made of plastic is being developed in Boothbay. 



a. Get away from wood and its buoyancy and its 

 attraction to borers 



b. Make it collapsible 



c. Improve its shape 7 



d. Perhaps make it smaller by eliminating the par- 

 lor and use instead some other trapping device, 

 such as the " inhibitor " in the Leakey pot. He 

 says it works. 8 



5. Research in anti-biotics. Work further with anti-bi- 

 otics. 9 If an unsealed and ungutted fish can have its flesh 

 penetrated and preserved, then there should be a way to im- 

 pregnate a lobster with the chemical. And the lobster is 

 alive to circulate the chemical throughout his bloodstream— 

 a benefit the dead fish did not have. 



6. A slogan. Devise a good slogan saying that " two 

 chicken lobsters are a tastier meal than one large lobster." 



7. Other uses. Find out how to use the carapace ( the 

 hard-shelled part of the lobster). 



5 Ibid. 



e See pages 142-44. 



7 See page 44. 



8 See page 49. 



9 See pages 124-25. 



