32 REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



The Number of Boats Engaged in Lobster Fishing in the State of Rhode Isla7id, 



for 1909. 



Compiled by Wm. T. Luth, Chief Deputy Commissioner. 



Newport 



Block Island 



Jamestown and Saunderstown . 



Cliffs 



Sakconnet and East River 



Narragansett Pier 



Warren, Bristol, and Prudence . 



Watch Hill 



Point Judith 



248 23,220 381 



As a postscript to this report, Deputy Luth reports that no less 

 than 30,000 pounds are retailed from the wharves at Newport, some 

 5,000 to 6,000 pounds at Narragansett Pier, and about 18,000 pounds 

 at Bristol, Warren, and Tiverton Four Corners, of which no official 

 reports are obtainable. This would add about 53,000 pounds, 

 making the total 139,903. He also remarks that since in 1908, at 

 Block Island, there were only 61 men engaged in lobster fishing as 

 against 93 in 1909, there would seem to be an error in the report of 

 Deputy Willis, in which the catch for 1909 is reported as some 12,000 

 pounds less than in 1908. 



