CONTENTS. Vll 



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Chapter IV. Physical and Biological Conditions of Xarragansett Bay. . 71 



Chapter V. The Dissemination of Information concerning the Aquatic 



Resources of the State 73 



Chapter VI. Cooperation with other Fisheries Authorities 75 



Chapter VII. Propagation of Lobsters at the Wickford Experiment Sta- 

 tion 76 



Table of Number of IVth and Vth Stage Lobsters Reared since 



1900 76 



Liberation in 1910 77 



7,465 IVch Stage Lobsters Reared from One Egg Lobster 77 



69.4 per cent, of IVth Stage Lobsters Reared from 10,000 I's.. . 77 



A Mechanical Feeder 7S 



Improved Methods of Liberating 78 



Cost of Rearing 80 



Chapter VIII. Propagation of Marine Fishes 81 



The Winter Flounder ' 81 



Rearing through the Transition Period 81 



Appendix 



A. Revised Edition of "Methods of Protecting and Propagating the 

 Lobster, With a Brief Outline of Its Natural History.- — E. W. Barnes. 83 



B. List of Federal and State Fisheries Authorities 1910 128 



C. Titles of Special Papers published by the Commissoners of Inland 

 Fisheries, 1897-1911 139 



