Show BOSTON HAS FAME I AS LOBSTER PORT i Average of 1000 a Day Received Received Received Re Re- Last Year BOSTON May Day 27 It If If the trend of ot tho times in se sea sea food were to be followed fol- fol followed fol tOl- lowed the lobster might be bracketed with the sacred c d as as' the emblem of this states state's fishery activities Figures Figures Figures Fig Fig- FigI I ures just announced for the last year show that a total of lobsters I came Into this port an average of a al I thousand a day dar By thus adding to I its prestige as the principal lobster I market of the Boston sometimes sometimes some some- times Umes described as the home homo of some some-I the bean and the tho cod might be bo known as the lobster port I Steamers from Halifax N. N S. S and smacks from ports in Maine and Massachusetts Mas Massachusetts I have landed live lobsters I here this spring at a rate promising I Ito i to surpass even the tho record receipts I of last year In addition canned lobster lobster lobster lob lob- ster meat to the extent of six or seven thousand pounds passes through this port I The lobster obster grounds i from Nova Scotia to New Jersey send most of their products here as the bulk of the tho catch comes from Nova i Scotia and Maine Regardless of f the source the lobsters are aro subject to th Massachusetts law as to legal length I and all shorts those measuring less i than nine inches from noso nose to the tail I are sent back to iff- the sea The Massachusetts coast in this way profited by lobster Immigration from Nova Scotia and Maine to the extent of shorts last year This season season season sea sea- son officials ot of the state fish and game commission said have been been culled out as short up to May 1 1 The Tho shorts are taken to selected I places on tho the coast and dumped overboard overboard over overboard over over- board to establish new colonies bringing bringing bringing bring bring- ing added numbers to old ones nes there thereto to grow and become available for a legal trip to market |