■captured by the fishermen* These eggs, placed r.horrd a toat in jcirs 

 trhere ri Y/r,ter current circulates, are carried to the Bay-Viev; estab- 

 lishments There^, they are finally "laanaged" and induced .to hatch. 

 The follovdn^ Table (p* 158) permits v.s to follo^v the operations of 

 the year 1895 and to .i^'.dge the r^silts •'/l,.ich are givena 



Of the 16j8.200.Ono fecund eggs, collected by the efforts of the 

 Bay ViCT; tstr.blishnerJ. , 165,000,000 -/ero induced to hatch and trans- 

 planted to CanauJau vjf.ters. 



In Scotland the Plshei*y Board has instituted, under tiie dircct- 



■ ion of Dr- J. H- Fullrrton, attempts on ra'tificial lol ster propagc- 

 tior» There., hyvie^rer ^ in place of using the incubation i..ethods 

 used in ifevf ^-^ondjand - r in Canada, in pl^ce of ma^'.ing uee of float- 

 ing incubators, Daimevig's incubators, or the /r.ierican jars, they 

 have sim.piy kept the bci-ried feirales in an eno_osui'e siiiilir to 

 the crustacean reservnlrs of owr ft'ench coasts .. -They are also kept 

 in floatj.ng tanks such as t?ioso vrhich o.ro stiii used at Quitercn, 

 Belle-Isi?nd^, Crrnarat, le Conquet, Lanp:\ulji Quesoanb, I'Aber/rt'ach 

 and at many other points of om* shore* 



These experiments v/ere made at Brodrick Bay on the vrcst coast 

 of Scotland v^here the lobster fishery is particularly active. 

 There are allovTcd to not only study corapletely the larval develop- 

 ment of the European lobster, but also to follow the larval evolut- 

 ion during the four vreeks ai^-er their hatching. Eperking of that, 

 it is necessary to report that Darmevig has hatched in his a.ppar- 

 atus, in .1892, the eggs nf European lobster and that he has been 

 able to keep then living for t\fo months after the hatching of the 

 larvae. 



H« Dunnevig does not think it vrould be advantageous to limit 

 oneself to hatching the eggs in order to set. . the ;ro\.mg imi.iediately 

 at liberty. Ke also made reservations on the possibility of raising 

 the young in captivity because of their pugnacious disposition..... 

 •But he thinks that in keeping the young until the age --if six vreeks, 

 there v.-as a real advantage to perform tliis rearing; because, if the 

 loss is relatively great in the apparatus, it is again greater 

 under the natural conditions, (l) (Raveret-Wattcl, 1890) 



The Scotch method of propagation should not, properly speaking, 

 be considered as artifici-al. In any case, according to J. K. Pull- 

 arton, more than 700,000 young lobsters have been produced in 1895, 

 in the tanj:s at Brodrick Bay® 



Under these conditions, the -tanks for crustaceans, v;hich are 

 T.'idesproad on our Brittany coasts sh.-uld not fail to exercise a 



■ successfril influence on lobst-er production on our coasts. 



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