both deep nnd v;ide, so the renewal of vrater is quite good. The 

 fact that 2/oung, nnd ft^lly developed lobsters v/ ere kept there for 

 three v.'eeks proves that the water is healt?iful« That the results 

 at ^inekilen vrere not too good either, is probably due to the fact 

 that not much spavm was left at the thie when we i;:oved» Liost of 

 tile eggs had fallen off or had been spoiled already before that 

 tirae* "■ 



The only rearing experiment raade at 0'inekilen from v/hich we 

 may draw any conclusions, showed a better result than any of the 

 other experiments. Afber 17 days 8.1 per cent (211 individuals) 

 of the brood had reached the 4th stagej still there v/ere left 

 404 strong young lobsters in the Sd stagej most of these iTould 

 probably have changed shells shortly after August 26. The per- 

 centage of young in the 4th stage v/ould thereby have been about 

 24. This corresponds to the best results v/hich hitherto have 

 been reached on this side of the Atlantic. 



Experiments have been made for years at ITickford, Rhode 

 Island, where the temperature conditions are i.iost favorable, i.e. 

 18|- to 22 degrees. The latest reports we have (1908) shov; that 

 here a result of 40 per cent was rerched in only one single case. 



Sund, Oscar 



1915 Statens hvtrmeravls station, Korshavn. Aarsberetnir^ 



vedc Korges Fiskerier for 1915, hefte 2, pp. 176-181, 



The state's lobster rearing station, Korshavn 



The work started on Juljr 7 and' lasted until August 23. 



The experiments were not successful this year either, in 

 spite of the fact that 'the temperature, which was supposed to have 

 a bad influence in 1913, vfas much better. During the vrorking 

 period the noon temperature ytos always above 16 degrees and only 

 a few days belov/ 18 degrees C« So the temperature lofb nothing 

 to (be) desired« 



The engines of the station (two petroleum motors) v.'ere con- 

 stantly v/orking in the water. Only the night bet\'reen 12th and 

 13th of July vj-as there a stop of a few hours, in addition to four 

 stops Tj-hich lasted for less than an hoia*. 



At the end of the 1913 season we got sun shades of tar paper 

 for the boxes. Thereby v/e practice lly prevented growth of algae*. 



It was hard to get sufficient circulation in the water because 

 the 'Hvindows" of gauze vrere over-grovra and were hard to clean.! 

 This difficulty' xvas overcome by using v/indows of perforated cellu-. 

 loid. . . ' 



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