The Canadian oyster : its development, environment and culture . ageneral northern and southern extension and outlet are not oyster pro-ducers, although they are farther south and nearer the great oyster areasof the United States. Bedeque and Hillsborough bays, opening on thesouth-western side of Prince Edward Island, can hardly be called goodoyster bays, and the former is almost depleted of oysters while the bestparts of the latter are so far inland as to almost count as belonging to thenorth-eastern coast. Structure of Typical Oyster Bays.—Caraquet, Bay du Vin, Richi-bucto, Buctouche, Cocagn
The Canadian oyster : its development, environment and culture . ageneral northern and southern extension and outlet are not oyster pro-ducers, although they are farther south and nearer the great oyster areasof the United States. Bedeque and Hillsborough bays, opening on thesouth-western side of Prince Edward Island, can hardly be called goodoyster bays, and the former is almost depleted of oysters while the bestparts of the latter are so far inland as to almost count as belonging to thenorth-eastern coast. Structure of Typical Oyster Bays.—Caraquet, Bay du Vin, Richi-bucto, Buctouche, Cocagne, Shediac, Malpeque, are typical of our oysterproducing bays, and they are each guarded by a promontory, w^hich is con-tinued as a chain of islands, a sand-reef or sand-dunes, that act as a naturalbreak-water and protect against the larger, deeper, colder, more restless,irresistible and stormier body of water outside. It may be noted that Caraquet, Buctouche, Cocagne, and most of thesmaller oyster systems are of a simple type—each with its river, bay, and. HONOURABLE CLIFFORD SIFTON, CHAIRMANJAMES WHITE, ASSISTANT TO CHAIRMAN MALPEQUE BAY Statute Miles IGEORGE ^e^-
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