CONFERENCE ON MONDAY JULY, 23, 1883. 



JOHN TREMAYNE, Esq., in the Chair. 



THE ARTIFICIAL CULTURE OF 

 LOBSTERS. 



ONE of the most important objects of the Conference held 

 in connection with the International Fisheries Exhibition 

 is, I anticipate, to elicit data that may be utilised for the 

 improvement or resuscitation of our many fishing industries 

 already established, and for the opening up of new fields 

 that may give employment to the fishing community, and 

 increase the supply of wholesome food for the use of the 

 masses. 



Taking this for granted, I here propose to submit to you 

 the results of some practical experiments made on my part 

 some few years since, in connection with the artificial culti- 

 vation of lobsters, trusting that the deductions I have 

 arrived at with relation to the same may contain, at least, 

 some crude ideas that may be hereafter fashioned, into 

 shape and prove of utility to the public. 



The lobster, I need scarcely remark, occupies a front 

 position in the ranks of our food fishes. Its intrinsic value, 

 weight for weight, is little inferior to that of salmon, while 

 its nutritive and restorative properties as an article of diet, 

 are, in accordance with the latest dictum of the medical 

 faculty, vastly superior. An idea of the inadequacy of the 



