Shell-fish industries . rted into innumerableoyster ponds. Whether or not the utilization of ourmarsh lands will ever be attempted, the difficulties thathave been overcome by the European culturist are veryinteresting. He leases a plot of ground on a flat thatis exposed for a considerable period each day at lowwater, and in most cases much labor is necessary to pre-pare it before it can be used for rearing young are numerous. Among them are the starfishthat infest the bottom—slow-moving, harmless appear-ing creatures, but the most voracious and deadly of thefoes of the oyster;
Shell-fish industries . rted into innumerableoyster ponds. Whether or not the utilization of ourmarsh lands will ever be attempted, the difficulties thathave been overcome by the European culturist are veryinteresting. He leases a plot of ground on a flat thatis exposed for a considerable period each day at lowwater, and in most cases much labor is necessary to pre-pare it before it can be used for rearing young are numerous. Among them are the starfishthat infest the bottom—slow-moving, harmless appear-ing creatures, but the most voracious and deadly of thefoes of the oyster; crabs, the powerful claws of whichare able to crush the fragile shells of the young; anddrilling mollusks that pierce the shell even of adultoysters and consume the soft part enclosed also must be avoided or destroyed. To all thismay be added the fact that bottoms are often so softthat they will not bear more than a mans weight. Sucha condition alone might seem sufficient to make oysterculture Fig. 19. Tile collectors in place on a tidal flat at Auray,France.
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