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REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



VII. The Efforts to Prevent the Illegal Taking of Short 

 Lobsters. 



Two deputies are still employed by your Commission to enforce 

 the lobster laws. Even though it is impossible to detect and punish 

 every offender, yet the results obtained entirely justify the efforts 

 in this direction. Undoubtedly the influence of this line of endeavor 

 has resulted in saving great numbers of short lobsters and egg lobsters. 

 Out of the large number of lobsters received from Nova Scotia during 

 the year, 5,170 short lobsters were seized and liberated in Rhode 

 Island waters. 



The following table indicates the prosecutions and fines made un- 

 der the Lobster Law in 1904 and 1905. 



*0ne case involving 75 short lobsters and a fine of $375 is not yet settled. 



