4 COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



Approximately eighty million flatfish fry were hatched at the 

 Wickford station and liberated in suitable waters of the State. 



Three hundred thousand lobsters, in round numbers, were reared 

 to the bottom-seeking stages. 



Twenty thousand landlocked salmon eggs for which arrangements 

 had been made prior to the veto of the appropriation, were hatched, 

 reared to the fingerling stage and distributed in suitable lakes in the 

 State. 



Your Commission is very much pleased at the recent decision of 

 the supreme court sustaining the constitutionality of the lobster 

 license law. (A brief summary of this decision will be found in the 

 report under the heading " Enforcement of State Laws," and a re- 

 print of the decision will be found in the appendix at the close of the 

 report.) 



Occasion is here taken to thank the New York, New Haven and 

 Hartford Railroad Company for its courtesy in granting free trans- 

 portation of fry and messengers. 



The financial statement for the year 1911 is as follows: 



State of Rhode Island in account with the Commissioners of Inland 



Fisheries. 



DEBIT. 

 1911. 



Mar. 15. To expenses of the Commissioners from Jan- 

 uary 1 to March 15 $200 80 



To expenses and services of deputies under the 



law from January 1 to March 15 394 75 



To expenses at laboratory from January 1 to 



March 15 557 39 



$1,152 94 



