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REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



Experiments with the New Apparatus in 1902. — Nearly every- 

 thing in the way of apparatus used during- the past season was 

 new in pattern and in material, and, owing- to unexpected delays 

 at the factory, considerable time was lost at the beginning of the 

 season. Nevertheless, the number of " lobsterlings " raised to the 

 fourth stage was several times greater than the number carried 

 through at any other stage, or at this stage in previous years. 

 The total output for the summer was 27,300. The largest output 

 for one experiment was 12,750. This number was reared in one of 

 the large canvas bags. The following brief statement gives the 

 essential facts concerning the six principal experiments of the 

 season : 



With the exception of a few hundred specimens kept for further 

 experiments in growth, all these lobsterlings were set free in the 

 Bay. 



During the latter part of the season a great number of micror 

 scopic animal and plant forms, consisting mainly of diatoms and 

 stalked protozoa, appeared in the water and upon the lobsters. 

 These g row ths are very injurious to the fry. They encumber its 



