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...Massachusetts and the shad to Delaware, so is the lobster to Maine. Found only on the Atlantic coast from Henley Harbor, Labrador, to Cape Hatteras, N. C., the American lobster (Homarus americanus) is at its best off the coast of Maine, grows larger than its cousins down South. This advantage, upon which Maine's lobster industry was built, last week threatened to ruin it. Lobstermen setting their traps for the new season with halibut, herring and codfish heads anxiously questioned one another for news from Washington, where Maine's Congressmen Wallace Humphrey White Jr. and John Edward Nelson...
Maine's law forbids the taking of lobster under 10½ in. from nose-tip to tail-tip. At that size a female lobster is about six years old, has usually spawned between 50,000 and 100,000 eggs for the propagation of her race. But all other lobster States and Canada permit the taking of Qin. lobsters. To prevent the importation of oin. Canadian lobsters Congressmen White & Nelson would set 10½ in. as the minimum legal length for all lobsters entering the U. S. That Maine needs such a law is suggested by the fact that...
...losing as he did once. Obviously heir to Iron McNamara, Georgetti was once pierced by an eight-inch splinter which he sent to his father to be exhibited. He earns $28,000 per year, has a barber shave him every day of the race, frequently dines on rice, lobster and beer with Tenor Beniamino Gigli of the Metropolitan Opera Company...
Linton Perry's most awesome trick is to pop both eyes at once. Then he looks like a chubby lobster ready to go plop into a pot of boiling water. He accomplishes the feat by squnching up the muscles around his eyes...
...dozen reptiles according to the fine list A. L. made out for us. These are old coral islands, flat and surrounded by barrier reefs and shoals, and apparently but little visited for various obvious reasons. However, as a venture, a man at Geraldton has undertaken this summer a lobster-canning industry there and told us to come and stay at his camp there if we liked. The only way was to go with a fishing boat, which dropped us at the West Wallaby Island and agreed to stop for us again in two weeks, after making their fishing cruise. Schevill...