In consideration of the results here laentionecl and of the 

 ejcperience £;rxir).ed while thn vrork lusted, I think it desirable to 

 increase both the v/orking tine, and later tho rearing station. 



An increase in -working tine will help us deternine how much 

 young we can get from the spawn lobster and how much we can rear in 

 each apparatus f An increase in the nuriber of ajiparatus v/ill ecoiio- 

 rlze the vrork and give us an account of the cost of the reared young, 

 I shall probably set forth propositions relative to this matter vrfien 

 I have seen the results of a prolonged vrorking tine. 



Dannevig, Alf 



1928c Hunnaerlcultur. Ifoturen, 5Z'^^ aargang, nr, 10, Oktoberj 



pp. 2S9-S05, ilUis. 



(Translated by Arden llilsen, vn-ii^efield, Maine) 

 Lobster culture 



Lobstering has been kno^vn here in this land since the age of 

 sagas, but there were hardly any rules for mrdntenance and handling 

 before the Hollanders began buying up the lobsters around the year 

 I6OO0 That v/rs the first tine that the Ilorthmen learned to set a 

 price on lobsters as an item of merchandise and export - later they, 

 here in this land, learned in a steady rising degree to value it in 

 its chief importance. Oslo especially is a great consumer of lobster. 



Tiihen lobster fishing be;_;an here about 300 years ago» there were 

 plenty to take. Tho stock was so great that natural conditions 

 allowed (this unlimited harvest) and since fishing the first hundred 

 years was carried on only with pinchers, tines about two or three 

 fathoms long, thus it v/as only the shallo'.T regions along the shore 

 that were fished, Meamvhile the stock here diminished and then nets 

 were introduced, also because of the Hollanders* (demand), 



l^Iherever the fishing had been carried on more intensively the 

 catch diminished, and in 1737, country judge Lem.i Lister suggested a 

 bill for the r-rotection of lobsters at the time the lobster sheds 

 its shell and hatches its eggs and also forbade the catching of 

 lobsters under 9-10 inches in length. He stood alone, meanv/hile, 

 with his proposal. 



During the vmr in the beginning of the preceding century all the 

 exportirig of lobsters stopped and the stock vms allovred to increase 

 (accidentally - because war stopped commerce). So v/hen the fishing 

 again took place, tb.ey got fine catches - f ishing b ecame a paying 

 proposition, and was carried on more intensely for a nuinlDer of years. 

 Vfhile the lobster fishing in the 1700' s was carried on especially 

 bet'.veen Lindesnes and Karm.pen it now stretches farther East and North, 

 but for all that they take the catch to the full quantity (all there 

 is). 



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