LOBSTERS IN CALIFORNIA.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 214, 15 February 1875, Page 3

LOBSTERS IN CALIFORNIA.

The successful introduction of the lobster into California by the fish commissioners of that State is thus recorded by the San Francisco Bulletin-. —“ln June, 1873, the commissioners started from New York with 100 large and lively lobsters, with the attention of acclimatising them in the Bay of San Francisco. All save seven of the lobsters died on the journey, and those seven arrived in an exhausted condition. The lobsters slowly crawled away when placed on the shore of the bay, and there was a difference of opinion among the commissioners as to the result of the experiment. As each lobster bore about a quart of eggs at the time of introduction to the bay, the question was one which a year would be likely to settle. If either of the lobsters lived, the eggs she bore would yield a million lobsters, and these would soon be noticed by the fishermen. The original lobsters lived and thrived, and the bay now contains millions of young ones. A Chinaman who cast his net for shrimp the other day caught fifteen or twenty young lobsters, some of which he brought to one of the fish commissioners, in accordance with a previous understanding.