(an the lobster'dislinguish be- iuttcll wood and metal traps?

This. in effect. is what scientists of the Atlantic Biological Station of the Fisheries Research Board at St. Andrew's N. B.. are trying to find out. .

The results of these experiments being carried out by Dr. D. G. Wilder and field hnicians L. G. Kervin. R. C..-Murray and U. J. Walsh. with the help of many lob- ster fishermen. may have a far- reaching effect on the of the industry for losses of wood- en traps runs as high as half a million a year in the Maritime Provinces.

with the average value of these (raps approximately five dol- lars each. the loss represents a staggering loss to the lobster fish- in): industry. it has led to the crea- tion of a little more than a year ago of the Fisher-men's Indemnity Fund sponsored by the Federal Department of Fisheries to provide insurance for the lobster fisher- man against trap losses.

it has also stimulated experi- nirnis by the Fisheries Research Board to find a more durable

trill .

Txlle scientists naturally turned to designing traps of metal. and in 1953 carried out a preliminary e.xpc-riment, followed this up in H15-t with more extensive experi- ments. and presently continuing this in 1955. To date, the results

Soukctt wooden traps with fixed stone ballast

Metal traps - model 1 . liirtal traps - model I ..

The number of market lobsters caught in the conventional wooden traps and in the two models of metal traps during the Port Maitland

expi rimenls were:

Nu

is Ian. I445-I 54 -- Mar 2954 . .248 285 141 2454 - May 2854 473 328 234

lturing this experiment fo u r nlltllll traps were fished from Nov. 2 to 0. 1953. and 15 metal traps iii-rt: fished from Dec. 1. 1953 to .'ilarch 29. 1954. From March 24 to Pliny 28. 1954. the experiment was t'tllllllluC(l with 14 new metal traps of slightly different design.

From the above figures it will be seen that in the first stage the motel traps caught 98 per cent as many lobsters as the wooden traP5 ln the same number of hauls. Dur- mt: the second phase the percent- auc dropped to 49 per cent. mak- tn: the average for the enlll? PE" ttrvd 75 per cent. in the third phase. ullll the modified trap. the Pet'- reutage was 72. g

tlowever. during this test period the storm damage to the wooden traps (while the metal traps went imharmedt was quite significant.

Lobster Trap Experiments 1

Information and Educational Service Federal Department of Fisheries

1 popular in the experimental areas.

Trap Hauls Traps Model 1 Model 2 . 264 351 345

have not provided conclusive evi- dence. but. according to Dr. Wilder. "are encouraging."

He points out also that their work with the metal traps is still very much in the experimental state.

Conventional Design

in general the metal traps have been of conventional design. pat- terned after the wooden traps most

and differing. chiefly in the ma- terials used and the methods of construction. Most of the metal traps tested have been constructed of quarter-inch steel rod welded to three-eighth-inch steel bows (or framest. In attempts to simplify consruction. and thus reduce labor costs. traps iron-framed and bloted. and covered with aluminum mesh are being tried. More recent mod- els are being strengthened with I framework base of three-quarter or one-inch angle iron. .

A striking feature of the metal traps - aside from their fishing ability - has been their relative tightness in air and heaviness in water as compared to the con- ventional wooden traps. making even the lightest metal traps more difficult to haul. This difference in weights was demonstrated in traps tested at Port Maitland. N.S., where the following results were obtained:

I Weight in Pounds In A In Water . .109 29 . 52 46 . 56 50

Number of Market Lobsters

of Wooden Metal Traps

struck in December. On the 9th. 11 of the 15 wooden traps were de- stroyed and three others damaged. The second storm five days later destroyed seven of the wooden traps and damaged two others. In order that the experiment con- tinue on a proper basis wooden traps destroyed or damaged were replaced as quickly as possible af- ter the storms abated.

No metal traps were destroyed. damaged or shifted in either of the above or subsequent storms.

After coinpleiion of the Port Maitland experiment. the model 2 traps were fished at Fourchu. N. S. Since the metal traps were larger and of a somewhat differ- ent design. results were not strict- ly comparable. However. they pro- vided the following interesting fi-

Two of the most severe storms

No. of Wooden Mctaxlw 'l(iirt:P; .- l T 0 9 Pia tod Tralpml-lau s rgzpsl lm

Jung 9 - .luly 13z'54

The metal traps caught only 35 per cent as many lobsters as the wuodcn traps. but the individual i-an-tiu were so Variable as to make the difference statistically tnsnznifcant. No storms s e v e r e enough to destroy either typegof trap were encountered. according to Dr. Wilder.

Soaked wooden traps with fixed concrete ballast g 8

Metal traps - model

The catches in this area were:

No.

P4'l'lDt'T Aug. 10 -Oct. U54

Trap Haul: Traps .490 239

gure: Nuinbcr of Market Lobsicrs

The third experimental area chosen was Mlmincgash. P. E. l.. and 15 new metal traps compar- able in size and-design as the standard trap fished in this area.

were built for the experiment. The weights of these traps compared as follows:

Weight in Pounds In Air In Water in

30

Number of Legal Size Lobsters of Metal Traps Model 3 248

Wooden

..tPlay will begin today at the Montague Curlingt Rink in the schoolboy petition f'or the AI. J. Mabon trophy. Eight teams made up of young curlers from the Montague High School will take part in the competition, which will mark the first school- boy bonspiel ever held at the Mon- tague club.

Club officials had long been in,- terested in pt curling. but were prevented from doing so because up until this year, they had to rely on natural ice and weather conditions de- termined the length of the curl- ing season. However.' with the installation of the artificial ice plant and the longer season and the improved playing conditions which resulted. greater attention will be paid to the high school boys and next year a team will be sent to Charlottetown to parti- cipate in the provincial playoffs.

Schoolboy team drai-4'

SECTION A 1. Carl Reynolds. skip: B. White. male; E. MacLure. sec-

ond; L. Mccarron. lead. 2. Paul DesRoches. skip: T. Mair. mate; D. MacKenna. second; L. Munro.

lead. 3. Bruce Clair. skip; K. MacKenzie. mate; W. Maclntyre, second: J. Johnston. lead. 4

Rollie Diamond. skip; R. Sullivan, mate; D. MacLean. second;.V. Bell. lead.

SECTION 3

1. K. Maclntyre, skip; B. Bal- lem. mate; W. Crawford. second; C Butler. lead. 2. R. White. skip; I. MacKenzie. mate; B. Balder- son. second: F. Desltoches. lead. 3. C. Campbell, skip; I. Scrimge- our, mate; A. Murphy. second; D. MacLarcn, lead. 4. K. Pear- don, skip; R. Annear, mate; E. MacDonald. second; W. MacEwen. lead.

" ” "' ' for today's play:

3.45 west ice - Carl Raynolds vs P. Dcsltoches.

East Ice - K. Maclntyre vs R. White.

GOLD AND DOLLARS LOW

OTTAWA ICPI -- The Bank of Canada reduced official holdings of United States dollars and gold by S94,000.000 in February to S1.- 840.000.000, lowest in nine months.

The reserves have been rising steadily during most. of 1954. reach- ing a record 51.934.000.000 last January.

The batik. in its monthly report Saturday. placed its holding of U. S. dollars at the end of Febru- ary at S759.600.000. The January figure was S856.i00.000.

Holdings in gold were incrcased to a record 51.080.400.000 from S1,- 077.900.000 in January.

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s'.T6i?aat.a I? Islander Wins Science Test

..'John Lauchlin MacDonald. 16- year-old Oxford. iviississippi boy is one of forty winners in U. S National Science Talent Test. Forty teen-age finalists were chos- en from 16,000 candidates from High Schools in the 48 states and Dist. of Columbia. Young. Mac- Donald. "born in N. B.. Canada. is a son of Dr. and Mrs. Lauch- lin D. MacDonald of, the Univers- ity of Mississippi. where Dr. Mac- Donald is Prof. of Philosophy. The youth has made Grade A all through school. and is now a Senior at University High School, where he ranks first in his class of 58. He plays the bass horn in the University Band. which played for the Jan. 1 games. at the Sugar Bowl. New Orleans.

John Lauchlin is a member of College Hill Presbyterian Church. where his father has been pas- tor for the past seven years. After High School graduation he plans to major in theoretical physics. He has been invited to speak at the Science Div. of the Miss. Educational Association Annual Meeting in Jackson. Miss.. in March of this year. His father is a native of Kilmuir. P. E. l.. Canada.

HAVANA tAFt- - Oscar Suarez. 1171-2. Cubafs flyweight champion. stopped Fernand Gagnon. 11632. Quebec. in the ninth round at the Sports Palace Saturday night. The referee halted it when Gag- non was floored twice in the ninth.

Pieter Hooft. brilliaiht l7th cen- tury Dutch writer. completed his first book at age 17.

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. 'SALE-Everything to go less 10 pefcent for cash Large stock paint, flour and feed, building materials. Poole and Thompson. Montague.

'ENt.iAGEMENT. - Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stewart, Montague. wish to announce the engagement of their daughter. Emma Ann (Nani to Harold Elwin. son of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Younker, Char- lottetown. Marriage to take place in July.

..'BlRTHDAY PARTY-A happy event took place on Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry MacGregor. Monta- gue. honoring Mrs. Charles Vick- erson. Mrs. MacGregor's mother. on the occasion of her 36th birth- day. A bountiful supper. com- piete with a nicely decorated birthday cake With candles. serv- ed by Mrs. MacGregor to a party of near relatives. who all joined in singing "Happy Birthday". and the guest of honor was re- membered with many nice gifts. Mrs. Vickersou. who makes her home with her son Howard and his wife. is hate and hearty and enjoys life to the full. A pleasin feature was the presence at the gathering of four generations:

Fraser and her youngison John. Her may friends wish her many more birthdays.

Curling Draw Ar Montague

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57th Annual

Ev '33”-T-Tilli '11-W5-Kilgii Diocesan Board Of The WA

Delegates from all parts of Prince Edward island assembled

in St. Peter's Cathedral Hall yes-

terday afternoon for the 57th an- nual meeting of the P.E.l. Dioce-

san Board of the Women's Auxi-

liary to the Church of England in Canada. The Diocesan presi-

dcnt. Mrs. W. E. Champion pre-

sided.

A cordial wecome was extend- ed to all delegates by Mrsn W. A. Smith of St. Peter's Cathedral. a most suitable reply was given by Mrs. E. E. Warn of St. Eleanor's.

Letters of greetings were read from Mrs. A. B. Cosh. honorary president of the Board. now resid- ing in Ottawa. and from Mrs. Parker. corresponding secretary of the Dominion Board. Greetings had been received from all Di- ocesan Boards across Canada.

The president suggested that the Power of Prayer be the theme of the meetings. In her address. Mrs. Champion paid tri- biite to the life and work of two life members; Mrs. W. J. Payn- ter and Mrs. Hammond Horne. who had passed on during the past year. Tribute was paid to Miss Elsie I-Iickox. Miss Gerda Hansen and Miss Doris MacKay of St. Paul's Parish Church. Charlottetown. who are now do- ing missionary work at Alert Bay on the Pacific coast.

A highlight of the afternoon was the address of Miss Cath- erine Greene. daughter of the Rev. Canon Alan Greene of the Columbia Coast Mission who is now serving in the Diocese of Nova Scotin as Diocesan Youth Worker. Miss Greene outlined some of the things which the youth of today should be given, namely. the example of parents and friends showing a sense of duty In God and their neighbors. the experience of the love and

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This was the first experiment In which the metal traps fished as well as the wooden traps through- out the test period. catching 104 per cent of the amount taken in the wooden traps. In this experi- ment special precautions were tak- en in rigging and setting the metal traps to ensure they settled to the bottom right side up. In earlier experiments there was evidence that the metal traps sometimes settled on their sides. and this un- doubtedly contrlbued to their poor- or catches.

Eiiperlnienta Continuing

The experiments are continuing as the lobster open rotate about the thousands of miles of Maritime coastline. Port Maitland is again a base of operations. and the traps used earlier at Mimine-

ash are being tried near Lunen-

UTE. N. S.

The I4 traps previously fished off

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mentcd with the addition of five more. similar in design except that aluminum mosh on four and -cotton mesh on one is being used instead of steel rods. 4 AI Lunonburg. where the Mim-1 tnccash traps are being used. the metal traps caught 78 an compar- ed with 82 for the wooden traps. in the first four hauls.

Two problems are yet to be over- come - the cost of the metal "fills and the rusting-out of the

metal. .

"We have to know more about the efficiency and the lasting qual- ities in relation to cost before we can recommend their general use. But results to date continue to be encouraging." Dr. Wilder com- menis.

PLANE CRASH KILLS 7

COGNAC. France tkeuterst A-A French military plane crashed while taking off here Monday. kill- in all seven crew aboard.

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Australian born. Miss Jean Pol- lard. presently employed by Mari- time Central Airwayl. who had spent 17 months recently in Kar- achi. India. told of the life and customs in that country. particu- larly of the Karachi and Pakis- tan women. Miss Pollard's ad- dress was received with great interest. .

Mrs. H. K. S. Hamming. who has recently returned from sev- eral months in England. brought first hand news of the slum con- ditions in East London and what was being done by her brother. Rev. Neville Palmer and others to improve the conditions.

His Lordship Bishop Waterman assisted by Mrs. Champion, con- ferred Dincesan Life Membership on Mrs. George Rogers, a gift of the Diocesan Board, on Mrs. H. Burt. a gift from the Senior Branches of St. Peter's Cathedral and on Miss Helen Hobkirk, a gift of her three cousins.

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Before giving the closing pray- er. Bishop Waterman thanked the members of the Woman's Auxil- iary for their fine contribution to the missionary work of the church.

Tea was served by the Senior Branches of St. Peter's Cathedra.l

The meetings continue this morning and afternoon in St. Paul": Parish Hall. -

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