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‘The fame of the Malpeque oyster regarding its has become widely known through a large section of Canada and the United States.. As a result, fishermen of the Malpeque

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quantities to satisfy

{ larvae, thereby aa un- ‘| lmmited “quantitites of seed oy-

Culture of oyster has long history

The oystéf has long béen a de- sirable article of food in the western world. The Romans went to great pains to transport @ysters from Britain for ban- quets and even used primitive eulture methods to grow and fatten oysters for consumption.

Until the early 19th century, the natural production of wild , @y$ter beds. supplemented by transplantation to zood growing end fattening areas. was suff- icient to meet the market de- mand.

At this time, however, incre- @singly rapid transportation and population increase put heavy pressure on the naturally @ccumulated stocks and with increasing exploitation the in- evitable decline in production eccurred. For a time vigorous .» exploration for new beds com ‘ pensated for the faili ng produc- tivity of the old. but, eventual- ty both im the old world and the aes &@ serious shortage occur-

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sters. At the end of the 1%h cen-

| tury, oyster eggs were artific- | ially fertilized and developed | into larvae but 30 years passed . _ before larvae were raised to | settlement. Hopes of a. hatchery technique ran high but succes- la ‘the wai = tt i ee see too many uncon- 5 - century, trolled factors were operatin

Son weiter Seca eae 2s vance occurred with the discov- CULTURED FOOD

ery that oysters appeared on Intensive work in England sug- clean materials, shell etc., | gested that food played an im- which were immersed in the | portant part in determining the

sea in oyster — producing areas | success or failure of larvae rear- i

ee erence, saat jing attempts and that enly min- ute naked plant cells could be

Tee eee ear sw er ‘used as food by oyster larvae. ter fisheries but was still only | Techniques were developed for one step removed from natu-. the cujjure_of these plants; and ral production’ and just as de- | in yae were first_raised pendent on the vagaries of with cultured foods. climatic conditions. | This was a major step forward

Later in the 19h century, it | but there was still no certainty was realized that oysters Tepro-_ lof success in rearing attempts. duced by producing swimming |Further work suggested that the larvae which float in the sea for | growth of bacteria in the cultures some days before attaching | was largely responsible for the | themselves . and transforming (failures. Until sulpha drugs and into minute replicas of their pa- | antibiotics appeared, control of rents. The fact that an enorm- such infestations was impossib- ous mortality must occur in na- Je. Some 15 years ago, sim- ture. in the millions of eggs pro- ultaneously im the United Sta- duced by_a single oyster, raised tes and Britain, techniques the hope that a method might be were developed to contro! bac- found to prevent this mortality |teria and a reliable laboratory by artificially culturing these | method of oyster culture at last . achieved.

Many problems still remain. For example, oysters are prey to a number of diseases. control -§ methods for which are being de- veloped as they appear.

The first task in the immedi- ate future is the transforma2- tion, of an essentially labora- tory method into a practical and economical commercial pro-

Ellerslie Experimental Oys- te-. Hatchery procram Beyond this. vast new hori-

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will be a continuing and ex-

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|Rustico area. as far as fisheries is concernedd. is lobster i Last year, during the season, about 490.000 pounds of lobster were landed and this landing . had ‘a value of approximately /$250,009. for local fishermen. When the lobster season 1s over, fishermen concentrate on pmackerel. cod and hake. Mack- erel landings meant hetween | $60,000 and. $$70_900 to local fish- ‘ermen last year but cod, haxe | and Similar fish were scarce jand landings of this type brought |to local fishermen a landed val- ue of about $20,900 Most of the lobsters cauzht off North Rustico are of‘ the can Ring variety and are canned at the North Rustico Fishermen's Co-operative plant. At the peak of the season about 50 persons

months the plant is in operation. filleting and; freezing of ground

market demands. Using fish is carried out ahd this fish scissor-like tongs from dories these oyster fisher- men bring ie shell-fish to the surface.

+/finds a ready market in the Uni- | ted States

_ Men in repairing and replacing

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|Lobster is big cash crop for N. Rustico

The"biz cash crop in the North’ Each year, about 50 boats fish traps and traps too old to be ef-

out of Rustico and allowing two ficient. Last year few traps were

men per boat, this means em- ployment for 100 fishermen. St during the season and with

the production of about 5.000 new The- fisheries operation usuafly

stretches over six months, be- traps in the Rustico area. fisher- ginning in May, and the other ‘men will be seting about 30,000 six months are spent by fisher- | pots this year.

their fishing gear. . | FISHED OUT EARLY

TOURIST FISHING

A significant development im per of lobsters can be taken the Rustico area during the past from any one area in a season, few years has been the practice | said the extra traps. this year of local fishermen taking tour- may mean an increeased catch in

istsion deep sea fishing expedi first week or two of the sea- tions. Before fishermen can d0 | son but the grounds would be this, however,’ they must qualify ifished out earlier and lobster for a department of transport catches may be no higher than license. last year.

ig Anant © Sekecmen ts. the Bae} “Extra traps,” he said,

area are now |“‘mean added expense and

im the profitable deep sea fishing | ireal benefit.” ” Te ee ee Sis Gas of ek oad acc | traps each year in the Maritime.

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By EDITH ELDERSHAW highest landed by an individual TIGNISH — A total of 1,800,- > boat a the spring season 000 pounds of ground fish were “** pouns

| Fifty-two, boats at Skinners landed during the past seasos | Pond landed 356.923 pountis of

by the fishermen of the Tignish lobsters during the late summer Fisheries Co-operative. the larg- or fall season. The hizh indivi- est amount landed in the history | -= bbe landing. was 14300 of the Fisheries. total lobster pack The protning pant at Judes 54 Sn fe canny as Il- where a 44 cases. Sixty thousand pounds of @ men ~— ‘women | Were sitipped live to the Boston were employed there at salt fish | +market by Pridham’s transfer. drying, packaging and Total sales of products at the from September until iFisheries were $333.000 and and where several are still em- $87,000 was paid out in labor ployd. Ebbsfleet co-operative Fisher- 4,000 cases of chicken haddie ies with 27 boats had 131.26 were processed during the year, | pounds of canners. with 15.708 20 carloads of fish products pounds of markets were shipped during the year. They landed 2.2 pounds of Sixty-five boats at Judes: Point ‘cod, and 66,000 pounds. of bake. landed 452,000 pounds of lobsters: 20,700 Pounds of herring, and during the —— season, ee 69.000 pounds of mackere!.

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At Jerry Buote’s Fisheries a total of 225,000 pounds of lobs- ters were processed at the can- nery, 137,000 pounds of cod and hake were landed. —

Gallant Brothers at Mimine- gash where 22 boats fished land- ed 36,227 pounds of canners and. 10,000 pounds of markets.

They also landed 30,000 pounds of ground fish along with 10,000 pounds of herring and 4,000 pounds of mackerel.

Sixty-one thousand pounds ef Irish Moss was harvested at a value of $106,000. This was a de-_ cline of. approximately 30,000 over the previous year. The moss ‘picture is extremely bright for the buyers, and.a good mar- ket is assured—for-alil—that- can be harvested.

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