This is on account of the aforementioned restrictions - or regulat- 

 ing of the catch r/hereby it is possijjle' for the fishermnn to har- 

 vest the stock in a very short time, -■ less than a month. Next the 

 lobster fisheries are unfailing "(perennial) - that is, something 

 t?ie fishermen can depend on. Thrt is the reason.jt'hat the iaiterest 

 in preserving the stock and advancement has been so great, and has 

 Ciiong other things,, led to a lot of investigations concerning the 

 iintching and rearing of the lobster young. 



Similar experiinents have been carried out in this land surely 

 as far back as 60 years in the previous centuryo 



It was soon seen that there v/as no trouble to get lobsters to 

 hatch their eggs in captivity; you could find the neuly-hatched 

 young in an ordinary lobster trap. In 1883 it was also my father's 

 good fortune to hatch out the eggs after they had been freed from 

 the mother lobster. But to get the young to grov; up - there ViT as 

 the difficulty. Part of the young ate each other; others died of 

 ■ disease* 



I shall not go into all the er.perimcnts, here, that have been 

 carried on - if they have-not succeeded most of them have certainly 

 been contributory in clarifying the difficulties and have made 

 possible the vray forv/ard. It isn't the positive results alone that 

 have worth - but also the negative. 



It is no trouble to get the lobsters' eggs hatched, one can 

 let the lobster hatch its ovm egi^s in captivity, a thing which is 

 •done every year where the lobster is held on hand in the summer 

 months, or one cm heave the lobster into the sea where it can 

 hatch in freedom. If it is Just the hatching of the lobster eggs 

 you T>rish, surelj'^ tlie last method is both the best and the cheapest 

 even if the State paid full price for the lobster. It is not in a 

 person's ability to do it better than the lobster itself. It 

 carries the eggs under its tail for nearly a year, here they are 

 taken care of, they get fresh sea water and here they cjre held 

 free from filth. In that respect the lobster stands high over our 

 usual edible fish - these lay their eggs before they are fertilized 

 and leave them to nature's caprice. But also the nuiiber of eggs 

 spavmed among the salt-Virater fish is 100 times as great (or nround 

 that figure) as among the lobsters. 



It is well enough to let the lobster lay its eggs in the lob- 

 ster pound (or trap) but the net profit is very little (more). It 

 is easy, in the first place, for lobsters in the close quarters of 

 the pound to lose their eggs. In the second place the lobsters 

 have the inclination to eat their own young. This has among other 

 things been recorded by advisor Sund in his v;ork on lobster-raising 

 at Korsliavn, 



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