310 THE WORLD OF THE SEA. 
When they are caught they can always be preserved - until 
wanted for the market. In the illustration, a wooden box pierced 
with holes is used for this purpose; the captive crustaceans are 
placed in this, and it is lowered into the sea. 
Mr. Richard Scowell at Hamble, near Southampton, has built 
a reservoir of brick lined with cement, and the lobsters are not able 
to climb up its walls. Fifty thousand of them can be kept here 
for five or six weeks. . They are readily fished out of the water 
by touching them with a stick, which they seize with their pincers. 
When on land, to prevent them doing harm by their terrible nip, 
a piece of wood is fixed between their open claws. 
Shrimps are very favourite little crustaceans. They are every- 
where eaten. They strongly resemble the craw-fish, save that: 
they have no prehensile claws. Fishing for shrimps is simple 
enough. It is only necessary to enter the water as high as the 
knee, and push in advance a wide-mouthed purse net; the mouth 
of the net is fixed to a semi-circular hoop, and a stout stick so 
fastened that the shrimper pushes the flat side of the hoop along 
the sand before him. A glance at our plate will, if the mode 
be not already known, at once indicate the manner of “shrimping.” 
Where the beach is not favourable for the operation of shrimpers 
the fishing is carried on in boats. A long net is arranged between 
two boats which are pulled in the same direction, the net at stated 
times being taken out of the water and the captives secured. 
This, however, is seldom resorted to, the shore fishing being almost 
universally followed. Our French friends are gallant enough to 
consign the catching of the shrimp to the women. During the. 
winter the shrimps abandon the shore, and betake themselves to 
deeper water. To catch them in their retreat, it is necessary to 
let down baskets constructed after the fashion of the lobster crates; 
but, generally they are made not of wicker, but of net, stretched 
on a frame-work; the water, however, so destroyed the twine that 
it was found necessary to renew the nets every month; now 
galvanised iron wire is used, and proves to be an admirable sub- 
stitute, it being able to resist the action of the sea-water for three 
years. Like the lobsters, shrimps can be preserved alive in tanks, 
into which the sea-water rises at the high tides. 
Shrimps when boiled redden, but they never take so brilliant a 
