E-text prepared by Ronald Calvin Huber
while serving as Penobscot Bay Watch, Rockland, Maine,
with technical assistance from Joseph E. Loewenstein, M.D.

The Lobster Fishery Of Maine.

by

John N. Cobb

Agent of the United States Fish Commission.

Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission,
Vol. 19, Pages 241-265, 1899

CONTENTS

[Introduction]
[Natural History of the Lobster]
[History of the Fishery]
[The Fishing Grounds]
[The Fishing Season]
[Fishing Appliances]
[Methods of Fishing]
[Bait]
[Fishing Vessels and Boats]
[Transporting Vessels or Smacks]
[Lobster Cars]
[Methods of Shipping, Wholesale Trade, etc.]
[Boiling]
[Lobster Pounds]
[The Canning Industry]
[Abundance, etc.]
[Weight of Lobsters]
[Chemical Composition of Lobsters]
[Artificial Propagation of the Lobster]
[Large and Peculiar Lobsters]
[Laws Regulating the Fishery]
[Importations of Live Lobsters]
[Statistical Summary of the Lobster Industry in Maine in 1898]