SOME LOBSTER FACTS
BIG CANADIAN INDUSTRY. SAINT JOHN. Lobsters secured from the Bay of Fundy. one of the areas which help to make Canada the biggest lobster-pro-ducing country in the world, have been found to shed their shells between 30 and 35 times in nine years also that the female lobster carries her eggs, cemented to her body, for nearly a year before they are hatched. Fisheries research have done much to help the fishing industry in the Dominion and the Canadian fisheries scientists have devoted much of their time to the lobster. They have also discovered that the difference in water temperature during the eg'g stage of the cod affect the number of vertebrae in the grown fish: that the oyster change their sex from day to day: that the age of the cod can be- determined by the rings on the car-bone while that of the scallop can be read from the number of rings op the shell.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1939, Page 6
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160SOME LOBSTER FACTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1939, Page 6
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