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egg lobsters? Would you try to have the eggs hatch on them 
naturally ? 
Dr. Gorham: You mean in the season? We impound our 
lobsters through the winter so that we can have that condition 
during the spawning season. By shipping eggs on lobsters we 
rear a larger number than by stripping the eggs. 
©. Do you think it possible to do it on that stupendous 
A. Yes. We keep lobsters impounded until the eggs are 
near the hatching point, and so we would have a comparatively 
small proportion in number of lobsters in our crates at a given 
time. Those lobsters are kept in crates about forty-eight hours, 
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when all the eggs will be found to have hatched into fry. 
Mr. Titcomb: We keep these lobsters in pounds. When 
lobsters are impounded the eggs almost all hatch simultaneously. 
That is due to this large collection of lobsters being at an even 
temperature instead of being collected from various parts of 
the coast where they are in different temperatures. We find 
that the impounded stock gives better eggs than stock collected 
from fishermen along the coast at different places. But they 
all come out almost simultaneously. If you obtain the young 
lobsters in that way, would you undertake to rear to the fourth 
stage from 50,000,000 to 100,000,000 fry ? 
Dr. Gorham: We might have to vary our methods, pro- 
vided a large number of eggs were at the hatching point at the 
same time. It might be better in that case to hatch the lobsters 
in a pound without rotating mechanism, and then collect the fry 
as they hatch, and place them in rearing bags. Some such 
scheme could readily be devised to take care of large numbers 
of eggs coming to the hatching point simultaneously. At the 
Wideford station we would have increased the output consider- 
ably 1f we had more egg-bearing lobsters. The number of egg 
bearing lobsters is small compared with the large number of frv 
which we carried to the fourth stage. 
Q. Do you use a closed jar? 
