REPORT. 



To the Honorable the Geneval Assembly of the State of Rhode 

 Island and Providence Plantations, at it,s Palmary Session, 

 1897 : 



The Commissioners of Inland Fisheries hereAvith present their 

 report for the year 1896. 



TROUT. 



Thirty-three thousand (33,000) trout fry and about nineteen 

 thousand (19,000) yearling trout has been purchased and dis- 

 tributed in the various waters of the State. 



Trout fishing during the past season has been reported to us as 

 better than last year. 



LAND I-OCKED SALMON. 



The Commissioners have received notice from United States 

 Fish Commmission of an allotment of three thousand (3,000) eggs 

 of this species ; these will be hatched and reared until a year and 

 a half old, and distributed in waters adapted to them. 



BAY FISHING. 



The fishing in the upper waters of the bay has been even better 

 than last year. 



LAKGE MOUTHED BLACK BASS. 



{Micropterus-Salmoides.) 



The Commission has the past season given some attention 

 toward the propagation of this species of Black Bass believing that 



