FISHKS OF OUR NORTH ATUAN l'IC SEABOARD 
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Photograph by Press Illustrating Service 
CLEANING FISH IN QUAINT ST. JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND 
Many men spend practically their entire lives as fish cleaners. Even in so humble a trade rivalries 
crop out, and there are a number of claimants for the international championship in fish dressing. 
legs, which are provided with brushes of 
sensitive hairs, \\ith its large claws put 
forward to offer little resistance to the 
water, it keeps its ^ffeelers waving back 
and forth continually to detect danger as 
well as to discover game its eyes may 
have overlooked. 
SCAVENGER OF THE SEA-FLOOR 
The buoyancy of the water makes the 
Lobster light on its feet in its native en¬ 
vironment, but its body weight is too 
great for its legs when out of water. 
Though a great scavenger and tending 
to be nocturnal in its search for food, it 
is believed that the Lobster prefers fresh 
food whenever that is available. Fresh 
Codfish heads. Flatfish, Sculpins, Sea 
Robins, Menhadens, and Haddocks make 
excellent bait, but balls of putrid, slack- 
salted Herring seem just as attractive. 
When hungry, the big crustacean will 
burrow in the sand like a ravenous pig 
rooting for grubs, and it has been known 
to attack even a full-sized Conch, break¬ 
ing its shell away, piece by piece, and 
gluttonously devouring the soft parts. 
The Lobster is a cannibal by nature, 
preying on its weaker brethren, and did 
not the conditions uncier which it is 
hatched favor its immediate and wide dis¬ 
persion, it would largely exterminate itself. 
