Sund, Oscar 



1914 Beretning om anlaeg av statens hijrumeravls station og 



driften i 19139 Aarsberetning vedc llorge Fiskerier 

 for 1914, 4 de hefte^, pp, 525-532, illxis. 



Report on planning of the state's lobster rearing station 



and the work in 1913 



The rearing station vibs planned already in the spring 1911, 

 when I examined different looalities along the southern part of 

 the coast, which could be used for this purpose, as for instance 

 Yarholmeundet and a few other places at Ris/r, Port;;ir_ at Kragerjz^, 

 Aalo at Ny Kellesund and a fevr other places in the vicinity 

 together with Korshavn at Lindesnes and Hvidings/, where Dra 

 Appelljz(f's rearing station had been.. After having compared all 

 these plecQs-. on the basis of all knoivn conditions vrhich are or 

 night be of importance - su>ch as location in relation to the 

 sea and rivers, depth, bottom' conditions,' supply of mature lob- 

 sters, it seenied- to me that r.orshavn on the whole offered the 

 best conditions e 



Wrien the Storting (Parliament) in the spring 1912Jic.d granted 

 the money for the reoring station, 6,200 Icr oner > I vrent to Korshavn 

 on August 1 the same year and gave contracts' for the. building of 

 the rearing boxes and the machine barge to people in this place or 

 in the vicinityo 



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In May 1913, the rafts vfhiish keep the boxes in.their place 

 ond carry the propellers and their shafts, were built and the 

 whole hatchery v;as mounted and made ready for vrork by the middle 

 of June. ^ , 



Description of the Hatchery 



The hatchery v/as built essentially after the pattern of the 

 one described by Dre Mead at Rhode Island. On each side of a 

 barge there is a wooden frame, 54 feet long and 26 feet wide, 

 supported by 15 tarred barrels* The frames are bolted together 

 of 4. X 5 inch timber, and in each frame (or raft) there is space 

 for 12 rearing boxes. 



The rearing boxes are made of one inch planed and grooved 

 planks, painted with Coal tar on the outside, with white zinc on 

 the inside. The length and the breadth of the box are eight feet, 

 its depth four feet. At the bottoHp near two opposite corners, 

 there are two windows 2x1 foot, covered vdth frwaes, on v/hich^ is 

 stretched a fine net of "isengr.rn" (i.e. a ]:ind of cotton cloth 

 with l-l|- millimeters meshes). At the height of one foot there 

 are tv/o similar v.-indov/s or hatches on two sides of the box. The 

 box is made of six parts which are put together by means of brass- 

 screws « In the middle of tlie bottom, of the box there is a cast 



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