. About lobsters. Lobsters; Lobster fisheries. 142 ABOUT LOBSTERS and pounds—but there is still a high mortality, and much of it is due to ignorance or carelessness. Canada seems to be ahead of the United States in using more of the lobster; some dealers even pool their boiled trash and have it picked up on a regular schedule for conversion into fertilizer. It is reported that Canada has developed a vacuum tool to separate carapace meat from the cartilage, and put up lobster legs in packages for ready sale. Some fruits, such as cantaloupes, need to be ripened after they reach their destination
. About lobsters. Lobsters; Lobster fisheries. 142 ABOUT LOBSTERS and pounds—but there is still a high mortality, and much of it is due to ignorance or carelessness. Canada seems to be ahead of the United States in using more of the lobster; some dealers even pool their boiled trash and have it picked up on a regular schedule for conversion into fertilizer. It is reported that Canada has developed a vacuum tool to separate carapace meat from the cartilage, and put up lobster legs in packages for ready sale. Some fruits, such as cantaloupes, need to be ripened after they reach their destination, and are put into ripening rooms of controlled temperature and humidity. It is an ex- cellent marketing practice to make sure that the fruit reaches consumers in the condition they want it. Similarly, it might be good practice to tank lobsters after their trip to a city to revitalize them. Such a tank could have natural or artificial sea water mixed with a plentiful supply of air or even oxy- gen. Branding. An important aspect of merchandising is the marking of a particularly good product with a brand name as an essential to enable the customer to recognize a supe- rior product. A brand name is assisted by a distinctive pack- age. Whole lobsters are not readily adapted to packaging, but processed lobster products are. The State of Maine has been desirous of marking its product as " Maine Lobster," and several years ago furnished lobstermen free with rubber bands, each carrying a two- color plastic plate printed " State of Maine ; (See Figure 18.) This was a real step forward in better merchandising. These rub- ber bands were to be used in place of plugs in securing a lobster's big claw, and they were good, in that banding is better than plugging, which injures the claw; and es- pecially because they identified the. Fig. 18. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability -
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