REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



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LIBERATION OF FOURTH STAGE LOBSTERS, 1905. 



Locality. 



Character of Shore. 



June 13.. 

 June 26.. 

 June 27. . 

 June 28. . 

 July 6.... 

 July 11... 

 July 13... 

 July 13... 

 July 17... 

 July 21... 

 July 29... 



East Poplar Point 



Little Tree Point 



East Poplar Point 



Wickf ord Cove 



Point Judith Pond, Billings' Cove . 

 Warwick Neck, below Rocky Point 



Portsmouth 



Kickemuit River 



Conanicut Island 



Dutch Island Harbor 



Conanicut Island 



400 



3,000 



9,000 



200 



15,000 



10,000 



10,000 



15,000 



12,000 



20,000 



6,000 



Rocky. 



Very rocky, abundance of rockweed. 



Rocky. 



Muddy bottom. 



Stony, light seaweed. 



Rocky. 



Rocky, rockweed. 



Rocky, rockweed. 



Rocky ledge, rockweed below. 



Muddy bottom. 



Muddy bottom. 



Total liberated 100,600 



Used for experimental purposes, etc 2,972 



Total counted out 103,572* 



♦This nimiber is that of the fourth stage lobsters actually covmted. In addition to these 

 there were many first, second and third stage lobsters preserved for study, and some fourth 

 lobsters were liberated in the cove by accident to the bags. 



Total Number of Fourth Stage Lobsters Reared Each Year Since 1900. 



1900 3,425 



1901 8,974 



1902 27,300 



1903 13,500 



1904 50,597 



1905 103,572 



Total 207,368 



