22 REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



impounded are full of spawn and. being retained for some time, are 

 compelled to discharge their spawn in Rhode Island waters, the 

 traps often swarming with hy. It is the accepted belief of fish 

 culturists that fry hatched in one place tend to return each year to 

 that particular place. If this is true the impounding is greatly 

 beneficial to the scup industry in our state. 



The location of the traps is shown in the two accompanying charts. 

 (Charts I and II.) 



Table showing Number and General Distribution of Fish- 

 Traps SINCE 1898. 



The following arbitrary divisions have been made for the sake 

 of convenience : 



I. Providence River. — South to a line joining Warwick Point and 

 Popasquash Point. 



II. Greenwich Bay. — South of Providence River division in west 

 passage to a line drawn east and west touching southern part of 

 Hope Island. 



III. West Passage. — The west passage south of Greenwich Bay 

 region to a line draAvn due west from Beaver Tail and west of line 

 connecting the east end of Greenwich Bay boundary and North 

 Point. 



IV. Mount Hope Bay. — North of railroad bridge, Tiverton, and 

 a line connecting Bristol Ferry and Muscle Shoal Light. 



A'. East Passage. — South of Providence and Mount Hope Bay 

 divisions and north of a line from Beaver Tail to Brent on 's Point. 



\1. Sakonnet River. — The Sakonnet River south of railroad 

 bridge to line connecting Flint Point and the breakwater. 



VII. Off Shore. — Traps south of above divisions and not including 

 Block Island. 



VIII. Block Island. 



