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BUI.LETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
they are often left to perish. Well-nigh incredible accounts of the “windrows” of dead 
lobsters left by fierce storms on the shores of New Brunswick and of other maritime 
provinces were current in the earlier days of the fishery. Thus Prince (218) speaks of 
a memorable storm along the Shippegan shore, Gloucester County, New Brunswick, 
in 1873, and states that as many as 2,000 dead lobsters were counted in the distance of 
2 rods. 
The writer quoted above also speaks of the fish crow (Corvus frugilevus) as very 
destructive to lobsters on parts of the coast of Nova Scotia, where he says “when the 
tide goes down these birds destroy the lobsters left amongst the seaweed. They pierce 
the shield of the lobster where the heart and main blood vessels are situated, and the 
crustacean is at once rendered helpless and is devoured by its assailant.” I have seldom 
known the lobster to be stranded in this way in calm weather. The adolescent lobsters, 
which alone remain in near the shores, ordinarily go deep down among the loose stones, 
where neither crow nor any other bird could possibly dislodge them. 
