REPORT. 
To the Honorable the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island 
and Providence Plantations, at its January Session, 1902 : 
The Commissioners of Inland Fisheries herewith present their 
annual report for the year 1901: 
The work undertaken by the commissioners during the past year 
may be tabulated as follows: 
First. The stocking of our ponds and streams with suitable 
fresh-water fish, through the distribution of eggs and fry. 
Second. The collection of definite data respecting the times of 
arrival and departure of various food-fishes, and the preparatron 
of statistics of exportation. 
Third. The location of fish-traps within the waters of Narra- 
gansett Bay, and the collection of statistical date bearing upon 
their ownership. i 
Fourth. Experiments resulting in a new method of hatching 
flat-fish eges. 
Fifth. Further investigation of the red-water plague. 
Sixth. The continued examination of the physical and biologi- 
cal conditions of the waters of the Bay, begun in 1898. 
Seventh. A continuance of the survey of the shores of the Bay, 
for the purpose of determining those portions which are most 
productive of young seed-clams. 
Tighth. A continued investigation of the life-history of the 
clam. Methods of artificial propagation and cultivation. 
Ninth. Experiments in lobster-culture. 
