The fishery for the large crustaceans, lobster and Ipni^oustes, 

 is especially developed among us, as it shor/s on t}ie atteiohed graph 

 on the Brittany localities. There, the seamen who devote their atten- 

 tion to the capture of these aninals sell their catch to the dealers 

 who save a part in enclosures in order to regulate the sale for 

 trips to the interioro 



In 1895 these enclosures have given use to the commercial move- 

 ment summarized in the above Table; I ought to say certainly that, 

 besides the animals bought from ovir fishermen and taken on our French 

 coasts, the keepers of the reservoirs for crustaceans in Brittany 

 keep also in them the langoustes and lobsters which they send for 

 fi-om the Spanish and Portugese shores in the tank-boats (well boats). 



If we shall believe the fishermen, also the Bay of Quiberon 

 showed only small numbers of lobsters for long years. Wow since 

 the dealers have installed Yrooden floating tanks in the port of 

 Port-ivlaria de Quiberon, it should appear that one iiiay encounter the 

 young lobsters in the shallovT waters firequently. 



This assertion cannot surprise us very much, being given that 

 which we know- of the development oi' this animale It is not doubted, 

 in effect, that if the females are kept under good conditions, their 

 larvae cannot fail to hatch and disperse themselves in the vreters 

 which border on their hatching points c 



In France, the experiments have been held at Croisic, in 1890, 

 to apply to langoustes and lobsters the Nev/foundland artificial 

 propagation methods in floating incubators. 



These experiments gave no results, that is to say, that the 

 eggs placed in incubation are dead and gave birth consequently to 

 not a larva. Vfithout prejudging the utility that it might have to 

 apply to our vraters the methods of propagation used in America, we 

 ere certainly able to say that the attempts of development made in 

 France have not been over-vmelmed by rny of the precautions v;hich 

 are indispensable in order to assure the hatching of eggs. 



One cannot therefore say 'that these processes are not suscept- 

 ible to be a success in o\xr regions p We ought to admit rather among 

 ourselves, as everyiThere else, it is important that experiments of 

 this kind should be vratched over with care r.nd conducted by agents 

 sufficiently acquainted with the delicate operations that the 

 development of marine anima.ls renders necessary. 



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