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most favourable conditions are found out. but I do not 

 foresee any insuperable or even formidable difficulty, and 

 if even a small percentage of the young lobsters batched 

 could be successfully reared it would be a very great gain, 

 as under their natural conditions in the sea they have to 

 run the gauntlet of so many dangers that there can be 

 only a remote chance of one in a hundred escaping from 

 its numerous enemies and reaching maturity. I may add 

 as a proof of the want of many more native grown lobsters 

 that some hundreds of thousands are imported annually 

 from Norway and from France, and that lobster hatcheries 

 have lately been established in Newfoundland which hatch 

 over 500 million young lobsters annually so successfully 

 that there is only a loss of about 11 per cent., and the 

 promoters of these hatcheries are said to be thinking of 

 placing their lobsters on the British markets. 



