R EPOR T 



To the Honorable the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island 

 and Providence Plantations, at its January Session, 1911 : 



The Commissioners of Inland Fisheries herewith present their forty- 

 first annual report, for the year 1910, with suggestions and recom- 

 mendations looking toward a conservation of the present and an 

 extension of the future aquatic resources of the State. 



The efforts of your Commission during the past year have been 

 attended by most excellent results in practically all departments of 

 its work. Particularly has this been true of the efforts attending 

 the enforcement of the " Lobster License Law," and the work at the 

 Experiment Station. 



For the former it may be said that not only has the license law 

 preserved the benefits of the lobster industry for the citizens of the 

 State, but the clause giving the Commissioners authority to revoke 

 licenses for the violation of the lobster laws has placed in their hands 

 an effective instrument for the enforcement of those laws. Further- 

 more by means of this law a portion of the statistics relative to the 

 immediate condition of the lobster industry has been made more 

 exact. 



At the Experiment Station many of our previous records have 

 been surpassed and another problem in fish culture has been solved, 

 in consequence of which another marine form has been added to our 

 artificial propagation department. A detailed account of the work 

 of the station will be found under special headings in the main body 

 of the report. The chief results may be briefly stated as follows: 



(a) By means of specially devised side " gravel windows," or 

 filters, it has been made possible to retain very minute organisms in 



