REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



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TABLE No. 10. 

 Table Showing the Movements of Female Lobsters from which the Eggs 

 hare been Stripped, Which Were Liberated from WickfordLight House, 

 Each Lobster Bearing a Copper Tag, with the Words, " Return to the 

 Rhode Island Fish Commission." 



Tag 

 No. 



147 



103 



5 



25 



22 



36 



64 



148 



151 



156 



43 



58 



75 



18 



149 



LIBERATED. 



Locality. 



Wickford Light House. 



Date. 



July 7. 



June 4. 

 4. 



1 4. 

 1 5. 



RECAPTURED. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Aug. 1. 

 July 15. 



July 



June 



July 



Whale Rock Light 



1 mile S. W. Beaver Tail. 



2 miles S. Beaver Tail. . . 

 South end Conanicut 'Aug. 18. 



July 1. 

 West Passage, 

 West Passage 

 West Passage 

 West Passage 

 West Passage 

 1 mile S. of Plum Beach. . . June 8. 



•' 27. 



" 28. 



" 16. 

 Aug. 10. 



Coon's Ledge 



Wickford Light House 



Stone Beacon, Wickford. . 

 Whale Rock 



E. of S. 

 E. of S. 

 E. of S. 

 E. of S. 

 E. of S. 

 E. of S. 

 E. of S. 

 E. of S. 

 E. of S. 

 E, of S. 

 E. of S. 

 N. E. 



N. E. 

 E. of S. 



Number liberated 112 



Number recaptured 16 



The Rate of Growth of Large Lobsters, and the Limits of Size 

 and Age. — We have unfortunately little information on the rate 

 of growth of adult lobsters, although we greatly need it. It 

 would seem probable that there is a difference in the rate of 

 growth among individuals, according to circumstances, like that 

 which is so remarkable in the case of younger lobsters. They 

 increase in length only directly after moulting, and this increase 

 is, on an average, about 15 per cent, of the original length, accord- 

 ing to the observations of Herrick, but we do not know how often 



