How can this bo brought about? First and foremost by fishing 

 less - vre hr.ve r.n excellent example of that in the beginning of 

 the previous cent\iry, the restriction brou;;ht c.bout by v;ar-tiine 

 conditions iiiade it so that the stock increased enomously* Mean- 

 while fisherr'.en reluctantly accept this pirn; it dexxinds too much 

 (of then)o And yet I thinji thrt, without any difficulty whatever, 

 v/e can grin sonethin;; v/ith this plan* The thin^;, is that the really 

 profitable lobster fishing is carried on only about one nonth's time 

 each year, for the renainder (of the year) there is just a little 

 casual fishing here and there* 



It is n question v/hetyier these occasional crtclies cannot linit 

 the profit on the stock - and also (a question) whether there should 

 be a closed tine at the tine of year when fishing is the least 

 activco On the Skagerak coast this would be in nid-T/inter, for 

 example iVom the 1st of Decen'oer throughout Aprilo Such a restrict- 

 ion for ris?iermen as a v»iriole v/'ould be no inconvenience - but the 

 lobsters v.iiich a.re saved will become a gaiia to the stocke 



il more limited restriction in the protection of the smaller 

 lobster - and eventually the seed lobster. If the minimum m.easure 

 for the lobster is raised so much that it not only guards the 

 immature lobster, but also a lot of the individuals able to propa- 

 gate, this will mean an increase of the reserve of adult lobsters - 

 so tho-t the size of the catch shouldn't suffer more than one or two 

 years by carrying out the raising (of the minimum measure) » There 

 are namely no signs that the lobster v;ill in any manner disappear - 

 it doesn't wander av/ayj, nor is it harvested in any ot?ier manner than 

 by men. f&irking experiments show that in, the passing of a couple of 

 years ono will recover the greatest portion of the marked ones; 

 there is no possibility of any great percentage of loss a 



How high can the minimum meaoure be raised witViout doing any 

 harm? 



It is clear that there must be a limit thrt cannot be passedn 

 Here is where the lobster fishermen's economy enters ina It is 

 clerrly shovm that it doesn't pay to fish the lobsters until they are 

 big enough to be of food value - also it doesn't pay to protect then 

 until they are so big that they are no longer first class quality. 



Bearing in mind that the lobsters' food costs nothingj, and that 

 by tVie marking experiments it is shovm that no migrations take place, 

 ana that the overwhelming levy on the adult lobster stock is collected 

 by man^ then one must come to the cjnclusion that it is most econom- 

 ical to fish the lobster at the size that brings the most per indi- 

 vidual* Meaiiwhile this holds true only so long as the lobster main- 

 tains an even grov<th - it iTon't pay to allow tlie lobster to go on 

 for a nuiaber of yerrs to gain the growth that a younger one Virill 

 reach in a year - \uiless the incroase is illimitable for foode 



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