PRODUCTION AND COLLECTION OF SEED OYSTERS 
223 
localities where setting is regular and where the production of seed osyters is the main 
business of the industry. 
III. OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS IN SEED-OYSTER COLLECTION 
IN ONSET BAY, MASS., 1927, 1928 
By PAUL S. GALTSOFF and H. C. McMILLIN 
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE LOCALITY 
Onset Bay is a small indentation of the northern end of Buzzards Bay, about 
2 miles west of the entrance to the Cape Cod Canal. (Fig. 15.) The bay is about 2% 
Figure 15. — Onset Bay, Mass. 
miles long, not over half a mile wide, and has two islands — Onset Island at the 
entrance to the bay and Wicket Island in the middle of it. Numerous sand bars 
obstruct navigation in the bay. Outside of a dredged channel the depth of the water 
is from 1 to 17 feet at low tide. The shore line is very irregular, forming several 
points and coves. The bottom of the bay is generally hard and covered with a pro- 
fic growth of eel grass. A small amount of fresh water enters the bay through several 
mall creeks draining the surrounding low and marshy land. 
At present there are no natural oyster bottoms in Onset Bay. Adult oysters 
and 3 years old are brought in every year from Long Island Sound, Delaware, 
