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THE BOOK OF FTSHF.S 
Photograph from U. S. Bureau of Fisheries 
SAVING THE NEW ENGLAND LOBSTER FISHERY 
These men are lyinging egg-bearing lobsters to the hatchery at Boothbay Harbor, Maine. The 
Bureau of Fisheries, in cooperation with the State authorities, collects egg-bearing lobsters from the 
fishermen, takes the lobsters to the hatcheries, and saves all the eggs, which wouhl otherwise be lost. 
