■ The results of the rearing (work) in Inter years hove becor.o 

 increasingly better - and what's m-ire, if there have been any 

 mortality or JTiishaps the reasons have been found and could be 

 corrected. And v.^hen the raethods ncfVT are proved out in detail, I 

 think the questions about large scale rearing of lobster young are 

 cleared up* It is possible to get the young to live and the v/ork 

 and the cost of it will not be too frightening - if the rearing is 

 based on a large scale* 



The results of the rearings in the suromer of 1927 was a profit 

 of fron 28-35 per cent young in the 4th stage in the experiment that 

 v/as carried tl-irough by this method. About 22,000 lobsters in the 

 4th stage vrere planted* In 1928, 50,187 yoving were raised to the 

 4th stage ■ 34 per cent of the young used* 



So far have we now come, but vre still have to find out how to 

 transplant the lobster young so the work can be of advantage to a 

 large stretcli of coast - and find the best places where the young 

 pan be released* 



The last question virill be a hard one to clear up - and also 

 the thin^^s that go v.lth it: possibilities for shovfing a gain in the 

 stock* It takes practically five to seven years before a young 

 lobster becomes "measurable" and sho%Ts itself in the statistics, 

 and then, too, a single year's class in all probability will not 

 show itself in a uniformly-sized group* On account of this long 

 tine (5-7 years) the variation in grovffch vj-ill be very large. \Te 

 have no direct means for deciding on a lobster's agca 



'If one could only look ahead (for it becomes hard to follow 

 the youngsters further) and point out v;hat influences the hatching 

 out has on the stock, then one could not (must not) let these 

 questions drop out of sight. But at the same time one must remember 

 that if he v/ants to share in natiore's household, then he must not 

 work with trifles* llature, herself, works in large numbers. 



ILLUSTRi'.TIONS 



FIG. Ic Percentage of iiiarked loostcrs recaught in each age group 



count S count of marked lobsters 



(" ") " female 



( ) - male 



Lobsters' weight in proportion to size 



Lobsters' increase in length and weight per year for 



different sizes. 

 A lobster's grovrth in freedom at Fl/devigen 



(Possibly incorrect 1919-20 - cm*) 

 Three shells of a lobster held in captivity. 



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