CHAPTER IX. 



OUB SHELL-FISH FISHERIES. 



Productive Power of Shell-Fish Varieties of the Crustacean Family Study 

 of the Minor Shell-Fishes Demand for Shell-Fish Lobsters A Lobster 

 Store-Pond Described Natural History of the Lobster and other 

 Crustacea March of the Land-Crabs Prawns and Shrimps, how they 

 are caught and cured Scottish Pearl-Fisheries Account of the Scottish 

 Pearl-Fishery A Mussel-Farm How to grow Bait. 



Oj HELL-FISH is the popular name bestowed by unscientific 

 KJ persons on the Crustacea and mollusca, and no other 

 designation could so well cover the multitudinous variety of 

 forms which are embraced in these extensive divisions of the 

 animal kingdom. Fanciful disquisitions on shell-fish and on 

 marine zoology have been intruded on the public of late till 

 they have become somewhat tiresome ; but as our knowledge 

 of the natural history of all kinds of sea animals, and parti- 

 cularly of oysters, lobsters, crabs, etc., is decidedly on the 

 increase, there is yet room for all that I have to say on the 

 subject of these dainties ; and there are still unexplored 

 wonders of animal life in the fathomless sea that deserve 

 the deepest study. 



The economic and productive phases of our shell-fish 

 fisheries have never yet, in my opinion, been sufficiently 

 discussed, and when I state that the power of multiplication 

 possessed by all kinds of Crustacea and mollusca is even 

 greater, if that be possible, than that possessed by finned 



