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most favourable conditions are found out, but I do not 
foresee any insuperable or even formidable difficulty, and. 
if even a small percentage of the young lobsters hatched 
could be successfully reared it would be a very great gain, 
as under their natural conditions in the sea they have to 
run the gauntlet of so many dangers that there can be 
only a remote chance of one in a hundred escaping from 
its numerous enemies and reaching maturity. I may add 
as a proof of the want of many more native grown lobsters 
that some hundreds of thousands are imported annually 
from Norway and from France, and that lobster hatcheries 
have lately been established in Newfoundland which hatch 
over 500 million young lobsters annually so successfully 
that there is only a loss of about 11 per cent., and the 
promoters of these hatcheries are said to be thinking of 
placing their lobsters on the British markets. 
