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, which 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. ENVIRONMENT OF THE OYSTER 95 guard—having a circumscribed oyster area, Richmond (or Malpsque)bay is of a more complete type, consisting of several modified systemsbehind an extensive common guard. This is of a double nature. Onthe outside and extending from the entrance of Malpeque harbour ina north-westerly direction to Cascumpeque, a distance of forty-five miles,there is a series of almost continuous sand-ridges varying in height from20 to 45 feet. Inside of this is a chain of islands: Bill-hook^, George^,Middle and Lennox. The narrow entrance is to the east between Bill-hook island and cape Aylesbury. The bay is irregularly quadrangular in shape, the east side being someten miles in length, the west over sixteen, while the greatest breadth isabout eight. It may be regarded as having five chief extensions: Darnleybasin with Baltic creek, March water (Malpeque bay in the restrictedsense) with Shipyard river on the east
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