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The methods of artificial hatching which have been tried are 
(1) confining the berried females in a pond and allowing the larvae 
to disperse in the surrounding waters, and (2) stripping the ova from 
the lobster and hatching them in hatching boxes or in hatching 
jars. 
The former method besides being expensive prevents the all 
important rearing of the larvae and young lobsters, and with regard 
to the latter it may be said that it would be better to keep the 
berried lobsters in special tanks, and to collect the pelagic larvae as 
they are hatched. This has already been done by Williamson with 
success at Aberdeen. But in addition it is altogether essential that 
special endeavour should be made to preserve the young lobsters to 
the stage when they could be put into the sea with the best results. 
Experiments might show, moreover, that lobster culture on a 
much larger scale than that contemplated would be not merely 
possible but profitable and easy of accomplishment. 
