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formerly of the wicker basket type, but are now usually made of lath. 

 They may be rectangular, cylindrical or semicylindrical, and are from 

 2j^ to 4 feet long, about 2 feet wide and i J^ feet high. The ends are 

 of heavy mesh in the form of an inverted cone with an entrance hole 

 about 6 inches in diameter, so that the lobster can easily crawl in but 

 cannot readily find its way out again. The slats are nailed about 

 2 inches apart on some sort of frame and have a door in the top 

 through which the lobsters may be removed. 



The traps are baited with herring, halibut, fish-heads, etc.; they 

 are sunk to the bottom with stones or other weights and are secured 

 with a rope long enough to reach the surface of the water where it is 

 attached to a wooden buoy, painted with the owner's name or color. 

 The traps are usually set at a short distance from the shore, usually in 

 i to 10 fathoms of water in summer, but in winter they may be out 5 

 or 6 miles, in 25 to 50 fathoms. The traps are pulled as often as once 

 or twice a day in summer, but in stormy winter weather, a week or two 

 may pass before they can be visited; many are lost in winter storms. 

 After removal from the traps the lobsters may be kept in live boxes until 

 ready for shipment, which is done by packing them in wet sea-weed, 

 with ice below them in warm weather; the ice must be beneath as the 

 dipping of the fresh water from the melting ice is fatal; the claws may 

 be plugged or tied to prevent their being used. In this condition 

 they may be shipped almost any reasonable distance. The longest 

 distance they have been shipped was from England to New Zealand, 

 about 12,000 miles; several such shipments have been made with 

 comparatively little loss of life; each lobster in this case, however, was 

 put into a separate wooden compartment with clear, cool, aerated water 

 and was fed during the journey, which lasted, in one case, 54 days. 



Several lots of American lobsters have been transported across 

 the continent and planted along the Pacific Coast from Monterey 

 Bay to Puget Sound; while no definite results seem yet to have been 

 attained it is probable that the experiment will eventually prove 

 successful. 



When the supply of lobsters became seriously diminished means 

 were sought to aid nature to replenish the waters that had been so 

 thoughtlessly robbed. 



The most obvious thing to do was to strip the eggs from the berried 

 lobsters and carry them through the earlier stages of their development 



