. Report upon lobster investigations at Long Beach Pond, Nova Scotia, during the summer of 1915 [microform]. Lobster fisheries; Homards; Lobster culture; Homards; Lobsters; Homards. « DBPAtTMMNT Of TMM WAVAL MWWflOa • QEonae v, a. iti* oeoMion a female, which wu known to c»ny a few afga, waa kter found to be without any. In a third inttanee two female*, both with efgt, were placed in a crate and a law daya afterwardi one of them was found to hare loat her egva. Here, then, we hare reoorda of three different oecationa on which lobatera loat their eggs a ahort time after eatrudinf them. If unfer
. Report upon lobster investigations at Long Beach Pond, Nova Scotia, during the summer of 1915 [microform]. Lobster fisheries; Homards; Lobster culture; Homards; Lobsters; Homards. « DBPAtTMMNT Of TMM WAVAL MWWflOa • QEonae v, a. iti* oeoMion a female, which wu known to c»ny a few afga, waa kter found to be without any. In a third inttanee two female*, both with efgt, were placed in a crate and a law daya afterwardi one of them was found to hare loat her egva. Here, then, we hare reoorda of three different oecationa on which lobatera loat their eggs a ahort time after eatrudinf them. If unfertiliied ent "go bad" and drop off within a few weeka or even montha after extro»ion, it ii eaij to undenUnd how our fiihermen find not mora than an average of 80 per cent (according to one member of the Shell Fiih Commisiion of 1919-18) of the femalea carrying egga. It may be, too, that mothers, when preaied by hunge.*, eat their egga, whether fertiliced or not fertiliied. I hare myself watched a ...male tearing off unfertiliied egga from her (vimmereta, paMing them forward and tranaferring them to her mouth with her maxillipedea. On examining her abdomen, the egg duitera could be seen ragged and torn on each aide and partly removed. It could not be aaid in this instance that the eating of her egga was the reault of hunger, because all the lobsters in tha. pound thia summer well cared for and regularly fed. The fourth instance of the lose of eggs was the most ramarkable of all. In thia case none of the eggs adhered to the abdomen. The first intimation we had that eggs were being laid was seeing them floating around in the current on the floor of one of our rearing boxee. These were all soft and jelly-like, and undoubtedly, diseased and i;^ .. ^'«: *--:Moth« lobiit*ri eartyinff newly extruded anri. Iheee are attached to thr jwirw) swtronimg feet on Iho under rarfuce of the abdomen. T^ .e»^™8?W». 'J>e molhen nlwayi bend the Utter pwt o
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