CONTENTS. 



Page. 



General report upon the work of the Commission, and the financial state- 

 ment for 1908 3 



The stocking of ponds and streams with fresh- water fishes 4 



Collection of data and statistics relating to commericial fisheries 5, 28 



Fish traps set in Rhode Island waters, and list of trap owners 6, 32 



The continued examination of the physical and biological conditions of the 



Bay 11, 17, 41 



Exhibition of the results of sea fanning 13 



Propagation of lobsters 16 



Title of special papers published in the Annual Reports of the Commissioners 



of Inland Fisheries of the State of Rhode Island 163 



Special Papers: — 



The Fishes of Rhode Island, VII. The Life-History of the Common 



Eel, by H. C. Tracy 43 



Notes on the Crabs Found in Narragansett Bay by Walter E. Sullivan. 56 

 A Method of Fish Culture and of Transporting Live Fishes, by A. D. 



Mead 79 



A Method of Lobster Culture, by A. D. Mead 107 



Revised Lobster Law 137 



General Index to the Annual Reports of the Commissioners of Inland Fish- 

 eries of the State of Rhode Island 143 



