. Report upon lobster investigations at Long Beach Pond, Nova Scotia, during the summer of 1915 [microform]. Lobster fisheries; Homards; Lobster culture; Homards; Lobsters; Homards. 94 DXPABTMElfT OF TBE XArAL SKRVIOS 8 QEORQE V, A. 191S Lut year, 1914, because of the exceaeive leakage of water from the pound, tho Board ajvroved of the location of an experimental rearing plant of four boxea at the southwest end of the pond, and my report upon the operations of that year has been already published. LEAKAQE. On December 18, 1914, the Board was notified that the leakage, which had per- sisted thr
. Report upon lobster investigations at Long Beach Pond, Nova Scotia, during the summer of 1915 [microform]. Lobster fisheries; Homards; Lobster culture; Homards; Lobsters; Homards. 94 DXPABTMElfT OF TBE XArAL SKRVIOS 8 QEORQE V, A. 191S Lut year, 1914, because of the exceaeive leakage of water from the pound, tho Board ajvroved of the location of an experimental rearing plant of four boxea at the southwest end of the pond, and my report upon the operations of that year has been already published. LEAKAQE. On December 18, 1914, the Board was notified that the leakage, which had per- sisted throughout the previous summer, had been stopped, and that there was at that date a depth of 6i feet of water in the pound at low tida Ihiring the winter of 1915, however, the leakage again developed and was again reported stopped on June 36, 1916. At this date there was said to bia a depth oi 5 feet 8 inches of water at low tide. On my arrival, July 3, 1915, the pound was again leaking, not copiously, it is true, but sufSciently to show that in the course of a few days or weeks the rearing boxes, 4 feet in depth, would likely be resting in the mud As a precaution, there- fore, against possible injury to our larve, the boxes were reduced in depth to 21 feet. On the assumption that there would be, as intimated, 6i feet of water at low tide, a space of 4 feet would intervene between the bottom of our shallow boxes and the mud beneath. At Wiekford, RI.—the original home of the plant—the depth of water below the boxes is 12 feet at low tide, excepting at one comer, where it is only 51* feet. At Long Beach it was hoped that a depth of 4 feet might suffice to test the scheme. Last yecu: at low tide there were only betTi3en 20 and 22 inches of water below our boxes; this year, after operating our plant for seventeen days, the boxes were resting in the mud, so great was the Fig. 3.—West (ide of oement ptrand Hhowing leakaga of water. Over the ironrocU at the upper teft han
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