IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



In 1884 the value of fish-guano produced in 

 Nova Scotia amounted to over $22,000, and, 

 in New Brunswick, to over $43,000. 



The lobsters of the Labrador coast are of 

 the best quality, and nowhere are better 

 canned lobsters put up than in that region. 

 The lobster-fisheries are wastefully managed. 

 It would be difficult in these remote canneries 

 to enforce a law against the use of "shorts," 

 but I have always believed that a law requir- 

 ing the lobster-pots to have an opening defi- 

 nitely limited in size would be practical and 

 advantageous. All lobsters over a certain size 

 would then be unable to enter the pots, and it 

 is the large lobsters that are the most produc- 

 tive of their kind. Inspection of the lobster- 

 pots would be simpler and easier than inspec- 

 tion of the catchi 



The appalling wastes that are a part of the 

 present methods of spring sealing on the ice 

 can only be mentioned here. Every year tens 

 of thousands of seal-carcasses are stripped of 

 their hides and fat and abandoned in the 

 same way that the carcasses of the buffalo, de- 

 stroyed for their tongues and their hides, were 

 abandoned in the West. As a result, the same 

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